The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) yesterday arrested a 24-year-old youth from Parbhani district in Marathwada region for suspected ISIS links.
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&ldquo;Khan was arrested early today and around one kg of explosives and other instruments have been recovered from him,&rdquo; a senior ATS official said.
<img title="Youth with suspected ISIS links held with 1 kg explosives at Parbhani" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2016/jul/13crime.jpg" alt="Youth with suspected ISIS links held with 1 kg explosives at Parbhani" width="670" height="400" /> Representational picture
Prima facie, the explosives are low grade explosives, the official said. Khan was also found to have used a car remote key for operating an IED, he said.
ATS is also probing his suspected connections with global terror outfit ISIS.
Also at Parbhani Recently, 31-year-old Nasir Bin Yafi Chaus was arrested from Parbhani. Chaus was planning to join the Islamic State and was in constant touch with their members through social media.
On Friday, a 43-year-old man &mdash; Rizwan Khan &mdash;allegedly involved in recruiting youths for ISIS was arrested from Thane district in a joint operation by Kerala Police and the Maharashtra ATS, as part of the probe in the southern state, where several youths are suspected to have joined the terror group and headed to destinations abroad after being radicalised.
Khan was picked up from his residence at Kalyan in Thane, within days of arrest of a man associated with Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) of controversial preacher Zakir Naik, based on a complaint in Kerala.
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On July 21, Kerala Police, assisted by Maharashtra ATS, arrested Arshi Qureshi, associated with IRF, from Navi Mumbai for allegedly radicalising youths.
The Kerala police traced Qureshi to Mumbai following a complaint lodged in Kochi by the brother of a young woman, suspected to have joined ISIS along with her husband and left the state.

Around 1 kg explosives and other instruments were recovered from him; his arrest follows that of Rizwan Khan&rsquo;s in Mumbai, for allegedly recruiting youths for ISIS, and that of Nasir Chaus, also from Parbhani

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