Bengaluru,Feb.10: A suspected terrorist, with links to the banned terror outfit Al Qaeda, has been arrested in Bengaluru following a joint operation by the Internal Security Division (ISD) of Karnataka and the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The accused, Arif, who was working for a tech company in Bengaluru, was arrested on Saturday morning.
ISD suspects that Arif, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was in touch with ISIS and had made preparations to join the terror outfit. The accused was already in contact with Al Qaeda.
Arif had travelled to Syria through Iran in March.
NIA has seized his laptop and other electronic devices for investigation, while searchers are on at his house in the city’s Thanisandra area to look for more evidence.
As per sources privy to the development, Arif was active on Telegram, and was again planning to go to Syria.
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