India, Nov. 13 -- The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) have detained Dr. Mohammad Arif, a senior resident doctor in the cardiology department of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM), a government medical college in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur.

Arif's name allegedly surfaced during scrutiny of the phone records of Dr. Shaheen Saeed, the Lucknow-based doctor arrested on November 9 in the Faridabad terror module case, the officer said. Investigators said the two had been in regular contact for several months.

Dr. Arif was picked up from his rented flat in Kanpur's Ashok Nagar area by the investigating agencies on Wednesday night. "Acting on intelligence inputs, the ATS raided the premises and detained h...