Kolkata college girl arrested for LeT links

Tania Parveen, 21, a first-year student of Maulana Azad college at Kolkata was arrested by police for her alleged links with Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). The court has remanded her to 14 days police custody.

Kolkata:A 21-year-old girl student of a reputed state-run Kolkata college who was alleged to have links with Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) has been arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police from near the India-Bangladesh border in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.

The accused, identified as Tania Parveen, was taken into custody on Thursday from her house at Mawalipur village under Baduria police station following year-long surveillance, the police said.

A case has been registered against the first-year M.A. Arabic student of Maulana Azad College under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) related to sedition, religious incitement and criminal conspiracy.

She was produced before a sessions court in Barasat, which remanded her to 14 days police custody. The police sleuths had become suspicious about Parveen's activities after getting to know that there were regular transactions of crores of rupees in her bank account.

Parveen is alleged to have been involved in brainwashing the local youth into the ideology of Lashkar-e-Taiba.