The National Investigation Agency-NIA has arrested an IS suspect Azhar Iqbal from Teela Jamalpura locality of Bhopal. According official reports the NIA arrested Azhar with the help of crime branch of Bhopal after a tip off from an informer.

The NIA had registered a case against 16 people including Azhar in December last year in Delhi. The case was registered against them for anti-national activities and supporting terrorist organizations through social media.

Azhar was absconding since then while remaining people had been arrested. He was living in a house of his close relative in Bhopal. Azhar belongs to neighbouring Raisen district and was student of a madarsa in Uttar Pradesh. This is the first IS related arrest in Madhya Pradesh.