Three Kashmiris arrested in Raichur for suspected links with ultras

The police have picked up three youths from Mudgal town in north Karnataka’s Raichur district for their suspected links with terrorist outfits from Kashmir.

Police said Gulam Nabi, Mohammed Shakeel and Meer Hussain were going around Mudgal town in the guise of beggars. Finding their movements suspicious, the police took them into custody.

During interrogation, the youths initially claimed that they were from Andhra Pradesh and later admitted that they were natives of Kashmir. The said they were engaged in collecting donations for construction of a shrine in Kashmir.
They were produced before the judicial magistrate and remanded to police custody till January 16. Additional Superintendent of Raichur district police V B Kittali told reporters that the veracity of the information given by the arrested youths would be studied. The police is also exploring their possible links with Imran, the suspected terrorist from Kashmir, who was arrested in Bangalore recently with a cache of arms