Eight members of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), an affiliate of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) terrorist organisation, who were arrested yesterday by Special Task Force (STF) of Assam police, have been sent to police custody for 10 days by a Guwahati court on Friday.
"I am not trying to trivialize the arrest in any manner. The main contentions that we have taken are that if it is an offence which is punishable in 3 years or 1 year, what is the need to have him arrested right away?" the advocate stated.
According to Thane police, the couple, identified as Sabuj Sanowar Shaikh and Bishti Sabuj Sheikh, crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border illegally. They were arrested during a raid by police in the area on Thursday.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata MP Basawaraj Bommai condemned the arrest of CT Ravi, the party's MLC in Karnataka. Bommai said that the state government has "lost its track," and that the police is being "misused" by the government.
"They (state government) have acted like dictators, there is a full stop to everything, dictatorship will not last long," said CT Ravi after he was arrested on the complaint by Karnataka minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar.
BJP leader R Ashok attacked Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and said even though he had CT Ravi's video, the video would have to go to the forensic labs.
Advocate MB Jiragi, representing BJP leader CT Ravi, claimed on Friday that despite the BJP leader being arrested under sections 75 and 79 of the BNS, the police have not officially recorded his arrest or presented him before a magistrate, which is a legal requirement.
An Oyo state police spokesperson said on Thursday that eight people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the incident at the Islamic school in Ibadan.
Delhi Crime branch team arrested a 25-year-old man involved in a rape case in Badli, Delhi after an extensive 1500 km chase to Surat in Gujarat. The accused had been absconding since the registration of the case, Delhi police said.