New Delhi, June 14 : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested a Popular Front of India (PFI) master weapons trainer, living under an assumed identity in Karnataka, for his involvement in the Nizamabad terror conspiracy case.

The case pertains to a criminal conspiracy hatched by the leaders and cadres of the now-banned PFI to recruit and radicalise youth and provide them with arms training to promote and carry out terrorist activities with the ultimate objective of establishing Islamic rule in India.

The arrested accused, Nossam Mohamed Yunus @ Yunus of Nandyal, had disappeared with his family and had been absconding since his house was searched by the NIA in September 2022. NIA investigations revealed that he had shifted his entire family from Andhra Pradesh and was living under a false identity in Karnataka.