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16-yr-old from UP could be India's youngest jihadi
February 02, 2016
Times of India reports: When a Mumbai court last week sent a terror accused to a juvenile remand home, it underlined a disturbing trend for security agencies: that of outfits such as the Islamic State targeting the young.
The lawyers of the accused, Imran (not his real name), claimed he was 16 -- making him perhaps the youngest in the country to be arrested for terror links.
A resident of Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh, the accused is a Class XII student. He was arrested by Mumbai's ATS and UP police on January 24.
Imran's lawyer produced his Class X marksheet, which said he was born in May 1999, in the additional metropolitan magistrate's court in Sewri.
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