3 more held in Tamil Nadu ISIS module bust

Police on Saturday arrested three more youths from Coimbatore in connection with the recently-busted IS module in the city. Earlier this week, NIA had arrested two youths who were found to be part of a Kerala-Tamil Nadu ISIS module with links to Zahran Hashim, the mastermind of the April 21 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka.
The arrested youths were working as medical representatives in Coimbatore.They were involved in recruiting youths into IS through social media campaigns and were also planning terrorist attacks in Coimbatore city, police said. They have been booked under sections 18, 38 and 39 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.