Belagavi, Dec 8 (India Today) : The Judicial Magistrate First Class-III Court in Belagavi (Belgaum) has remanded Ejaz Ahmed Bihari, Editor of an Urdu daily, into police custody for seven days for his alleged links with terror network.
Bihari was arrested by the police in Kalburgi (Gulbarga) on the basis of information provided by Mohammed Hussein Ali Qureshi, who was caught filming the security check-points at the Belagavi airport. Qureshi had claimed that Bihari had entrusted him with the task of video-recording sensitive installations across the state.
The police formally arrested the journalist and produced him before the designated court in Belagavi on Monday. The police have not revealed the charges against the journalist, who hailed from Bihar. The police suspect that he was conducting surveillance for a local terror network.