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JAIPUR: A 30-year-old man from Karnataka's Gulbarga has been arrested in Jaipur for allegedly urging local youth to join the terror outfit. The man has been identified Mohammed Sirazudin, a local marketing manager of petroleum major Indian Oil Corporation.

The arrest was made by the Rajasthan Anti-Terrorist Squad allegedly. Sirazuddin allegedly used social media platforms to raise a call to local youth to join the fundamentalist terror group.

ATS officials were getting concrete information on Sirazudin's activities for the last three months. "We were also following the Facebook page and other social networking apps for the past three months. Based on various scientific evidences we have first apprehended the youth and finally arrested him under appropriate sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act," said an ATS official.

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"The accused got active nearly five months ago when he started urging the youth to work for ISIS , an organization banned in the country, through social networking sites like Facebook, WhatsApp groups and by another social networking app - Telegram," Alok Tripathi, additional director general (ADG) of the ATS told TOI.

Tripathi further said, "He was of course working for ISIS, as he was into propagating various things about ISIS and was urging people to join the organization."

Sirazudin was supplying official inputs and recruiting organization members in the country, Tripathi added.

"On a complaint, our teams verified antecedents of the accused, and checked his WhatsApp, Facebook accounts and Telegram accounts," said Tripathi.

ATS officials have also seized objectionable material from his residence in Jaipur. "We have seized a number of issues of ISIS's online magazine "Dabik", pictures, and videos from the possession of the youth," he added.

"The accused was allegedly running a Facebook page titled 'Dairy of a Mujahidhin' through which the accused was into finding the youth who were a bit angry with the system in the country," he added.

The accused is set to be produced before a court on Friday. Asked if more arrests are likely in this connection, a senior officer, said, "Possibly from various other parts of the country, but not much from the state."

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