After West Bengal, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested another Laskar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative from Karnataka for being involved in the terror recruitment case.
The LeT operative was arrested on Tuesday evening, NIA officials said.
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NIA officials informed that the accused, identified as 28-year-old Sayyad M. Idris, was arrested from Uttara Kannada in Karnataka.
“The Pakistan-based handlers belonging to terrorist outfit Laskar-e-Taiba have been using various social media platforms to radicalize and recruit vulnerable youth for sleeper cells, to propagate their ideology and for abetting & advocating unlawful activities,” the NIA officials said.
The arrested accused was a part of various social media groups run by Pakistani-based LeT handlers in their effort to recruit individuals for sleeper cells of LeT and for furthering terrorist activities, the NIA officials said.
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“Transit remand is being taken to produce him before NIA Court in Kolkata,” officials said.
In this case, a chargesheet has already been filed against accused Tania Parvin, a resident of Kolkata on September 10.
“Further investigation in the case is on,” the NIA officials said.