India, Dec. 1 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested Shafat Ahmed Shangloo, who was involved in the kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of the then Union home minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, and was absconding for the past 35 years, the agency said on Monday.

Shangloo is alleged to be a close confidant of the separatist leader and chief of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Yasin Malik, against whom charges have already been framed in the kidnapping case. Malik is currently lodged at Tihar prison.

"CBI has arrested an absconder Shafat Ahmed Shangloo, wanted in a 35-year-old CBI case relating to the kidnapping of Dr Rubaiya Sayeed, daughter of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, ex-home minister," said an agency spokesperson...