NEW DELHI: India has arrested three people who were on their way to join the terrorist group of the Islamic State (IS) or Daesh in Afghanistan.
The three aspiring jihadists from Hyderabad, all final year students, were nabbed on their way to join Islamic state (IS) terrorist group in Afghanistan in an early-dawn operation jointly conducted by the Telangana police and Maharashtra Anti-terrorist squad (ATS) at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar international airport in Nagpur.
The suspects who are in their 20s, were supposed to board an Indigo flight to Srinagar from Nagpur airport after arriving here from Hyderabad a day before by road. Out of three, two were intercepted earlier also on their way to Afghanistan by the intelligence agencies.
It further states that missing complaints were lodged at different police stations in Telangana state by the respective families after the students left home on Thursday. Telangana police had informed Maharashtra ATS after it came to fore that the men were heading to Nagpur to take a flight for Srinagar.(TOI)