The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has ar-rested one Arsalan Feroz, an operative of The Resistance Front (TRF) group, for allegedly being in-volved in radicalising and recruiting youngsters to join militant ranks, officials said on Friday.
A spokesperson of the agency said searches were conducted in Kashmir on Thursday during which Feroz, a resident of downtown Srinagar, was arrested.
The case relates to a conspiracy hatched for radicalising, motivating and recruiting youngsters of Jammu and Kashmir to effect violent activities in the Union Territory and in other parts of the country by Sajjad Gul, Salim Rehmani alias Abu Saad and Saifullah Sajid Jutt, who are commanders of the TRF, a shadow organisation of the banned Lashker-e-Toiba outfit.
According to the officials, Feroz, in a criminal conspiracy with these people, was recruiting indi-viduals to carry out reconnaissance of pre-determined targets, coordinating and transporting weapons to support Lashkar and its frontal affiliate, TRF. The agency has so far arrested four accused in the case.—GK
