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Patna : The NIA on December 8, 2021, arrested one Zafar Abbas alias Zafar Ali alias Zaffar alias Jaffar, 25, from village Pathra under Majhagarh police station in Gopalganj district in North Bihar for his alleged link with Pakistan based proscribed Lashkar-e-Taibaa ( LeT)  and took him to New Delhi on transit remand granted by the Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistarte (ACJM-VII), Gopalganj.

Zafar Abbas, son of Sheikh Hasmullah of village Pathra, Gopalgnj, is Accused No 3 in the NIA case. The NIA, in its petition seeking transit remand of Zafar Abbas, said that the three accused : Muneer Chowdhar alias Muneer Ahmad Ahmad ( A-1), a resident of Baramullah, J&K;, and Arshid Ahmad Tonch ( A-2), a resident of Kupwara, J&K; and Zafar Abbas (A-3), allegedly has links with LeT and were running a network of its over-ground workers (OGWs) along with their associates and receiving terror fund from their handlers abroad.