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The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a 19-year-old pupil pursuing dentistry for allegedly having links with an online module of the banned panic outfit ISIS, officials said connected Monday (March 16, 2026).
Haarish Ali, a nonmigratory of Saharanpur district, was arrested successful Moradabad connected Sunday (March 15) during an ongoing probe into activities of ISIS-linked online networks operating successful India, a connection from the ATS said.
The second-year BDS pupil is alleged to person been associated with ISIS handlers and sympathisers done societal media platforms specified arsenic Instagram and encrypted applications similar Session and Discord, officials said.
According to the ATS, quality inputs indicated that immoderate individuals successful Uttar Pradesh and different parts of the state were creating online groups to propagate ISIS ideology aimed astatine establishing a Sharia-based caliphate strategy and enlistee radical to fortify the panic outfit successful India.
The groups were allegedly utilized to stock propaganda materials, extremist lit and instructions related to ISIS activities.
Based connected the inputs, a lawsuit was registered astatine the ATS constabulary presumption successful Lucknow nether applicable sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the connection said.
During the investigation, it was recovered that the accused allegedly created respective groups utilizing pseudonyms and virtual backstage networks (VPNs) to enlistee like-minded individuals and circulate ISIS propaganda, it said.
Officials said the accused besides ran a abstracted radical named “Al Ittihad Media Foundation” and maintained contacts with individuals linked to ISIS networks successful India and abroad.
