Kolkata Police arrests student with alleged links to Laskar-e-Taiba.
Barasat/IBNS: The Kolkata Police arrested a student for alleged links with Pakistan-based militant group Laskar-e-Taiba from Baduria in Bashirhat district of West Bengal, media reports said.
According to a Times of India report, Tania Parveen, a student of Arabic in a well-known college of Kolkata, had made and received several calls to and from Pakistan over several months.
A special task force of Kolkata Police arrested the 21-year-old student from her Baduria home after following her activities which indicated her links to Lashkar, the report said.
The police recovered two mobile phones and a diary. She was produced in Barasat Court on Thursday and remanded to police custody for 14 days.
Police have said there was clear evidence of sedition and conspiracy against her and her diary and call records were being scanned for getting further insight into the case, said the report.
Parveen is known as a good student who had scored more than 80% in Madrasa Higher Secondary Examination.
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