Two charge-sheeted in Karnataka for links with Pak-based TTP terror group

The National Investigation Agency has filed a charge sheet in a court in Karnataka against two persons for allegedly raising funds for furthering the activities of Pakistan-based terror group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

The accused also allegedly attempted to radicalise and recruit gullible Muslim youths in India for the banned outfit to carry out acts of terrorism, a spokesperson of the federal agency said.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had registered a case against the accused Mohd Arif (42) of Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh who was working as a French translator in Bengaluru and Hamraz Worshid Shaikh (27) of Maharashtra’s Thane.