2 from Kashmir held in Bihar, freed

BIHAR: Two brothers, both residents of Jammu and Kashmir, were detained here on Saturday by the police for questioning after some allegedly incriminating pictures and alerts indicating their possible terror links were found in the mobile phone of one of them, but were released hours later. The one in whose mobile phone the pictures and alerts were found has been identified as Yasir Rasood Shiekh, a resident of MRK Shakia village of Anantnag district.

His brother was identified as Safdjar Ahmad Shiekh.

Yasir was detained Friday night after his bike was confiscated by railway for being parked in a restricted area of the railway station here. He was sent to Kotwali police station subsequently by railway police for payment of amount imposed as fine on him for wrong parking.

A police official, who did not wanted to be named, said that at the police station, a casual scanning of his mobile phone by police officials led to detection of pictures and alert. After he was detained, his brother, who came to police station looking for him, was also detained for questioning and verification.

A police officer involved in the questioning said the brothers told them that Yaisr had been coming here for years to sell woollen clothes. In recent years, his brother too had been accompanying him. He said nothing substantial against the brothers had been found, excpet some pictures and alerts in Whatsapp groups they were part of. SSP Ashish Bharati said the two were released in the evening after verifying their antecedents from the police in Anantnag.