India, July 30 -- The Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a 30-year-old Bengaluru woman for allegedly operating social media accounts promoting content from the banned terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). This was the fifth arrest as part of ATS's probe into social media radicalisation.

An ATS officer said that Shama Parveen, the accused, was brought to Gujarat from Bengaluru on transit remand after her arrest on Tuesday with the help of central agencies and Karnataka Police.

Gujarat home minister Harsh Sanghavi called Parveen "highly radicalised" and said she ran an online terror module. "We have recovered Pakistani contacts from her electronic devices. Gujarat ATS has so far arrested five AQIS terror...