Youths arrested for planning to join terror get police custody

A court here today remanded the three local youths, arrested for allegedly planning to join the terror groups like ISIS, in police custody for seven days.
The police custody of Mohd Abdulla Basith, Maaz Hasan Farooq and Syed Omer Farooq Hussaini will start tomorrow.
The three, who are cousins, were intercepted at the Nagpur airport on December 26 when they were trying to board a flight to Srinagar.
The special investigation team of the Hyderabad police had sought 10-day custody to interrogate them. The police said they also wanted to recover certain documents and to take the accused to Nagpur for probe.

According to the police, the accused had planned to meet Kashmiri separatist leader Asiya Andrabi and seek her help in crossing the border and travel to Afghanistan and Syria to join terror groups such as ISIS.
The three are at present in judicial custody in Chanchalguda jail here.