India, Nov. 15 -- A special court in Pune on Friday remanded in judicial custody till November 28 software engineer Zubair Hangargekar, who was arrested by Maharashtra ATS for alleged links with banned outfits such as Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent as well as suspected involvement in radicalisation activities.

The court remanded Hangargekar to judicial custody after the ATS pressed for it while reserving the rights of his police custody.

ATS earlier told the court that, during searches, an old phone belonging to Hangargekar was recovered from one person. It has begun an extensive forensic examination of more than 1 TB of data recovered from the laptop of Hangargekar.

"During the analysis of the contact list of the pho...