Noted Muslim cleric Maulana Abdul Qavi, wanted by local police for the last ten years, was arrested on Monday for alleged anti-national activities and having links with terror groups lashkar-e-Tayyebba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, official sources said.
Founder of Jamia Ashraf-ul-Uloom madrassa in Hyderabad, Qavi was arrested from Delhi airport on Monday morning and brought to the city during, a District Crime Branch official said. Qavi has been 'wanted' by DCB for the last ten years in a case under the Prevention of Terrorist Activities (POTA) Act which was repealed after UPA-I came to power in 2004. In the afternoon, Qavi was produced at the POTA court in Bhadra where the police requested the court to remand him to their custody for 21 days to find out more about the terror network.