Bhubaneswar, April 11 – The Delhi Police have arrested a 22-year-old man from Bhubaneswar for suspected links with a terror outfit, according to an official statement released on Saturday.
The accused, identified as Sheikh Imran, a resident of the Unit-6 area in the Ganga Nagar locality, was arrested by a joint team of Odisha and Delhi Police on Friday for his alleged involvement in anti-national activities, the statement said.
Imran came under the police scanner after a special cell of the Delhi Police picked up some youths in the national capital a week ago and scrutinized their social media posts, the statement said.
Based on the interrogation of the youths and analysis of their social media posts, a link to Sheikh Imran was found, and he was apprehended, it said.
During further interrogation, it was found that Imran, a jobless youth, was an active member of the radical group, the statement said.
Imran had come into contact with a closed group on social media, where radical religious content detrimental to national security was being shared, the statement said.
He was produced before the Bhubaneswar Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate Court and taken on transit remand to the national capital.
A mobile phone, a laptop, and other materials were seized from Imran's possession.