The police yet to ascertain the details of the youth taken into custody. Sources say that the man in custody prompted the youths to join the ISIS and imparted lessons to radicalise them. The police team is probing the youth at secret location.
A young man was taken into custody from Kannur in Kerala on Saturday for alleged links with Islamic State (ISIS), the dreaded terror group.
Muhammed Haneef, a native of Wayanad, was detained following a case registered against him by Mumbai police in connection with the alleged ISIS recruitment. Haneef is suspected to have played a key role in radicalising the youths from Kerala who left the country recently in suspicious circumstances.
Though police have not yet ascertained Haneef's terror links, he is being interrogated by a special wing of Mumbai Police at an unknown location, reports said.
Last month 21 people, including three women and two infants went missing from Kasargod and Palakkad districts, giving rise to speculations that they might have left the country to join the ISIS. The police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) started investigating the suspicious missing and made a few arrests including Arshid Qureshi, a close aide of Islamic televangelist Zakir Naik from Mumbai.
In a series of arrests made so far in connection with the case, a special team of Kerala police had arrested a woman identified as Yasmin Ahmed from Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi last week when she was about to leave the country for Kabul. The woman is the second wife of the main accused Abdul Rashid, a native of Kasaragod, who is alleged to have played a key role in the ISIS recruitment.
