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A time aft 3 youths were nabbed by the NTR District constabulary successful Vijayawada for suspected panic links, the constabulary teams from Andhra Pradesh arrested 3 much suspects from assorted States connected Wednesday.
The constabulary squad arrested Sayeeda Begum from Chanchalaguda country of Hyderabad successful Telangana and Abdul Salam from Ballari successful Karnataka, connected Wednesday.
Based connected reliable information, the A.P. constabulary besides picked up 19-year-old Zeeshan from Nai Sadak country of Jodhpur successful Rajasthan precocious connected Tuesday evening. With this, the full arrests successful the panic nexus lawsuit has gone up to six.
According to police, Zeeshan was the handler linked to the violent outfit ISIS. Suspicious videos related to ISIS were recovered from the accused’s mobile phone. He allegedly utilized societal media groups to brainwash young radical and radicalise them with extremist ideology.
The accused was besides successful interaction with different ISIS-linked individuals who are already successful jail. The A.P. constabulary squad worked successful coordination with the Sadar Bazaar constabulary squad led by SHO Manak Ram.
“The accused had deleted each extremist videos and anti-national contented from his telephone aft coming to cognize that his accomplices were arrested successful Vijayawada. However, the forensic squad successfully recovered the deleted data,” said a constabulary serviceman associated with the investigation.
Investigation revealed that Zeeshan was the admin of a radical named ‘BENX’, wherever helium regularly uploaded abbreviated extremist videos and dependable notes, promoting extremist ideology.
Police sources accidental that the handler had tested him earlier assigning him the relation of the admin. After successfully passing the test, Zeeshan was fixed power of the group, pursuing which helium began influencing different youths.
As per the police, Zeeshan had been associated with the radical for astir 2 years. Further questioning is expected to uncover much contacts linked to the network, said the police.
It is besides learnt that the NTR Commissionerate constabulary is apt to manus implicit the lawsuit to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for further investigation.
NTR Police Commissionererate in-charge Commissioner Sarvashresth Tripathi said peculiar teams person been sent to Delhi, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Bihar, Rajasthan and different States to apprehension the remaining accused successful the case.
“The constabulary seized the videos, posts and speeches of Pakistani-based preacher Israr Ahmed, who advocates the constitution of the Caliphate, documents relating to jihadi activities, lit connected the basics of explosives and immoderate banned lit from the main accused Md. Rahamatullah Shariff,” Mr, Tripathi said.
The arrested besides created ‘Al-Malik Youth Islamic Committee (AMYIC) successful 2023, and a YouTube transmission titled Al-Malik Youth Union for discussing their activities, a constabulary serviceman said.
“The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) constabulary had earlier arrested panic suspects Sevilla Qureshi and his followers Shama Parveen and Mohammad Faiq successful July, 2025, who are reportedly from this aforesaid group,” a elder constabulary serviceman told The Hindu on Wednesday.
