An Islamic preacher, arrested in Kerala for his alleged links with terror outfit ISIS was on Sunday remanded in the custody of Mumbai Police.
The accused, Mohammed Hanif, was brought to the city and produced before a court which sent him to police custody till August 20, a senior police official said.
Hanif, who hails from Kambalakkad in Wayanad, was taken into custody at Panur in Kerala on Friday night, police said.
He was alleged to have radicalised 11 of the 21 people from Kerala, who have gone missing and are suspected to have joined the ISIS, they said. On August 8, police had said, of the 21 gone missing, 17 were from Kasaragod and four from Palakkad. They include four women and three children. Their disappearance came to light last month after the families approached officials in Kasaragod.
The father of Ashfaque, one of the missing young men, had recently lodged a complaint against Arshid Qureshi, an employee of controversial preacher Zakir Naik's Islamic Research Foundation, Rizwan Khan, Hanif and another person.