India, Dec. 1 -- Nearly 36 years later, a person allegedly connected to the sensational 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiyya Sayeed, the daughter of the then union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, has been arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), officials said on Monday, December 1.

Identified as Shafat Ahmed Shangloo, the man was allegedly part of a conspiracy hatched by members of the banned terror group Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) led by Yasin Malik, who is in jail in this and other cases. According to officials, Shafat was an office-bearer of the banned terror group and was handling the outfit's finances, news agency PTI reported. He carried a reward of Rs.10 lakh, CBI said.

The CBI, along with the Jammu and Ka...