India, Jan. 27 -- A 22-year-old tailor has been arrested in Gujarat's Navsari district on charges of plotting targeted killings and conspiring to wage a war against the central government, the Gujarat anti-terror squad (ATS) said in a statement.

The suspect has been identified as Faizan Shakil Salmani, a native of Rampur in Uttar Pradesh. Salmani had been living in Navsari district's Zarakwad area.

"The plot involved attacking and killing certain well-known youths in UP with weapons to spread terror, as well as conspiring to separate Kashmir from India through Jihad. To execute this conspiracy, he had stockpiled deadly weapons," the Gujarat ATS statement claimed.

The ATS statement said it has seized a country-made pistol purchased from...