The NIA has arrested a suspected terrorist for his alleged hyperlinks with Myanmar-based insurgent teams and conspiring to wage warfare towards India by exploiting the present ethnic unrest in Manipur, an official mentioned.
Moirangthem Anand Singh was arrested from Manipur and delivered to New Delhi for questioning, a spokesperson of the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) mentioned.
Singh was one of many 5 individuals arrested by Manipur Police for possessing weapons looted from police armoury. The arrest had led to agitation by the bulk neighborhood, who had been claiming them to be village defence activists.
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A neighborhood court docket had granted bail to all 5 on Friday.
Nonetheless, Singh was instantly positioned underneath arrest and whisked away to an undisclosed location earlier than being delivered to the nationwide capital.
The official mentioned Singh was arrested in a case associated to a “transnational conspiracy” by Myanmar-based management of terror teams to wage warfare towards the federal government of India by exploiting the present ethnic unrest in Manipur.
The case was registered suo moto by the NIA on July 19 in New Delhi and investigations revealed that in furtherance of the conspiracy, the proscribed terror teams are recruiting over floor employees, cadres and sympathisers to reinforce their energy to hold out assaults on safety forces and opposing ethnic teams by exploiting present unrest within the state.
They’re accumulating arms, ammunition and explosives by illegal means, together with plunder and pillage of presidency services and sources, the spokesperson mentioned.
After Singh was delivered to Delhi on Saturday, he was produced earlier than a jurisdictional court docket which remanded him in police custody for a interval of 5 days, the spokesperson mentioned.