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NIA picks up college student in Coimbatore with suspected IS links
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) picked up a law student from Coimbatore over alleged links with Islamic State, two days after six persons from Kerala were arrested over the same issue.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) picked up a law student from Coimbatore over alleged links with Islamic State, two days after six persons from Kerala were arrested over the same issue.
The NIA sleuths had also picked up four youths from the city in this connection and let them off after questioning on Monday. They, however, took the law student to the police commissioner’s office on Tuesday morning for further questioning, intelligence wing of the police said.
On Monday, the NIA arrested a 31-year-old man in Tirunelveli, about 360km from Coimbatore, for his alleged links to IS module in Kerala. He had fled Kerala after the NIA arrested some of his associates there, police had said.
The NIA had on Sunday arrested six persons from Kerala for allegedly plotting terror attacks in the country during the agency’s ongoing investigation into the disappearance of 21 people from the state, who are believed to have joined the terror group in Afghanistan and later moved to Syria and other countries.
