Indore: Police in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city have arrested two people and arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of involvement in “anti-national” activities, an official said on Thursday.
Based on initial leads, an investigation is underway to find out whether the three youths were trying to contact terrorist organizations and modules of Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI through social media, Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and arrangement) Amit Singh told reporters.
“Videos of radical ideology that can disturb social harmony have been found in the mobile phones of three youths,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abhinaya Vishwakarma.
He said that they were arrested based on information from various agencies that monitor people’s activities on social media, adding that two of them are between 20 and 21 years old and the third is 17 years old.
The three suspects used to watch content related to radical ideology on Instagram and YouTube and share it on their Instagram accounts, Vishwakarma said.
He termed the reports that the trio had links with Pakistan’s ISI or any other agency and wanted to go to Kashmir to join terrorist activities as ‘misleading’.
Based on intelligence inputs, the trio were “arrested from Khajrana police station area of the city on suspicion of involvement in anti-national activities,” Singh said.
“We are interrogating three youths. The whole picture will be clear only after investigation and interrogation,” the officer said.
A case has been registered under Sections 196 (promoting enmity between two communities), 197 (allegations and claims prejudicial to national unity) and 353 (spreading false information on social media and spreading tension, enmity or hatred among each other) of the Indian Judicial Code. two communities), he said.
The three had given up their studies and taken up menial jobs on a temporary basis, the official said.