Rajasthan ATS arrest Chennai man for ISIS links

The ATS had also traced an operative recently in Thiruvallur.

D-The Rajasthan ATS has arrested one person from Chennai for alleged terror links. He was arrested in the wee hours of Tuesday from Burma Bazar. He has been identified as Haroon.

The ATS officials say that he is alleged to have transferred funds to an ISIS module in India. His name had cropped up during the interrogation of two other accused arrested from Tamil Nadu earlier this year.He will be questioned for further details, the officer also said.

The arrest comes just a couple of months after the Rajasthan ATS had picked up one Mohammad Iqbal from Chennai on the allegation that he had links with the Islamic State.

The ATS had also traced an operative recently in Thiruvallur. It was said that the person in question Jamil Ahmed was a fund raiser for the outfit. It was during the questioning of Ahmed that the name of Iqbal had cropped up.

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