The National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered a fresh First Information Report (FIR) on April 3 under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and sections 17, 18, 18-B, 38, 39 and 40 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), against two terror suspects identified as Mohammad Arif and Hamraz Worshid Shaikh, for their suspected links with Al-Qaeda in Indian-Subcontinent (AQIS) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and radicalising Muslim youths in India through “end-to-end encrypted social media platforms” and sending them to Afghanistan for terrorist training, reports The Indian Express. Both the accused were arrested by the NIA in February 2023.