LUCKNOW, Sept. 12 -- The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Saturday arrested a 19-year-old Azamgarh man for allegedly promoting the ideology of banned terrorist organisation Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and attempting to radicalise and recruit young people through social media, senior ATS officials said.

Words such as "trip", "pen", "juice" and "project" allegedly became codes in a WhatsApp network used by the accused, Mohammad Nabeel, to communicate about jihad, weapons, chemicals and operational planning, according to senior Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officials.

According to a press note shared with the media, Nabeel had created a WhatsApp group named "La Ghalib Illallah", in which he allegedly addressed other ...