The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has detained a medical student from Kanpur in connection with the ongoing investigation into the recent Delhi blast (Pics/PTI)
The doctor, identified as Dr Mohammad Arif, 32, a first-year DM (Cardiology) student at the state-run Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College, was taken into custody from an undisclosed location
The ATS team searched the suspect's rented accommodation in Ashok Nagar, Nazirabad, and seized his mobile phone and laptop for forensic examination before taking him to Delhi for questioning. The official also said, "He is likely to be confronted with those already arrested in the Delhi blast case"
Arif, a native of Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir, came under the ATS radar following disclosures made during the interrogation of former GSVM professor Dr Shaheen Sayeed
Dr Zafar Hayat, former husband of arrested Dr Shaheen Sayeed, speaks to the media in Kanpur after UP ATS made the arrests
Sayeed, connected to Al Falah University, has been arrested as part of an investigation into the "white-collar terror module" with links to Jaish-e-Mohammed and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind
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