Hyderabad, June 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Gujarat Police’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has picked up a Hyderabad man who was allegedly in touch with a woman from the state's Surat recently arrested on suspicion of being part of the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP).
A team of Gujarat Police detained the man and was questioning him at an undisclosed place in Hyderabad.
He was allegedly in touch with Sumera Banu Malek with whom he was said to be chatting with her online.
Sumera Banu, 32, was arrested by Gujarat ATS a few days ago on suspicion of being part of ISKP, an Islamic State affiliate active in South and Central Asia.
The ATS also reportedly seized ISKP literature and some electronic gadgets from the possession of the woman. On the basis of information provided by Sumera Banu, three men from Srinagar were arrested by the ATS from Porbandar.
They were identified as Ubaid Nasir Mir, Hanan Hayat Shawl, and Mohammad Hajim Shah and were allegedly planning to go to Afghanistan via Iran.
Later, another man Zubair Ahmed Munshi, also from Srinagar, was arrested for links with Sumera Banu. Based on the information gathered from her during the interrogation, Gujarat ATS detained the Hyderabad man and began questioning him.
Source: IANS
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