Mumbai: The Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Saturday arrested three persons from Nagpur airport and allegedly foiled their bid to join world’s most dreaded terror outfit Islamic State (IS).
According to the Nagpur ATS, the arrested people are from Telangana and were going to Jammu and Kashmir.
Earlier on Tuesday, the ATS detained a person in Pune suspecting that he was one of the three missing Mumbai youths suspected to have joined IS.
Notably, in May last year, four youths from Kalyan township in neighbouring Thane district had gone to Syria to join the IS.
A Pune-based 16-year-old Muslim girl, who was reportedly radicalised by her IS contacts abroad and brain-washed to go to Syria, was questioned by ATS sleuths earlier this month and sent to a de-radicalisation programme.
