The National Investigation (NIA) has arrested an accused from Karnataka in connection with the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) recruitment case of West Bengal.
“Yesterday (10.11.2020), the NIA arrested accused Sayyad M. Idris, aged 28 years, resident of Uttara Kannada, Karnataka in West Bengal LeT Recruitment Case,” the NIA said in a statement on Wednesday.
The case arose out of West Bengal, Baduria Police Station FIR No. 150/2020 dated
March 18, 2020 pertaining to Pakistan-based handlers belonging to proscribed terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyaba using various social media platforms to radicalize and recruit vulnerable youth for sleeper cells, to propagate their ideology and for abetting and advocating unlawful activities, the agency said.
The arrested accused Sayyad M. Idris was part of various social media groups run by Pakistani-based LeT handlers in their effort to recruit individuals for sleeper cells of LeT and for furthering terrorist activities, it alleged.
The accused is being produced before the Court, Uttara Kannada and transit remand is being taken to produce him before NIA Court, Kolkata, it further said.
In this case, chargesheet has already been filed against accused Tania Parvin of Kolkata on September 10 and further investigation in the case is continuing, it added.