An M A Arabic, final-year student of a city college in Kolkata (West Bengal) has been arrested for suspected links with Lashkar-e-Taiba, from an undisclosed location, The Telegraph reports on March 20. The 21-year-old had been allegedly spreading purported anti-national texts and videos and encouraging the ideals of LeT through WhatsApp groups created with Pakistani SIM cards, Police said. The woman has been booked for sedition and under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
“There are at least 50 accounts that she had created as the admin,” a Police officer said. The Police are examining a diary recovered from her home and her cellphone. They have found some telephone numbers of purported Pakistani links. The resident of Baduria, North 24-Pargana District, had been under the special task force’s scanner after an alert was issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) in 2019. She was produced before the additional chief judicial magistrate’s court in Basirhat on March 19, and remanded in Police custody for 14 days.