Ahmedabad, July 30 -- The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested a Bengaluru-based woman for allegedly promoting the propaganda of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a banned terror outfit, officials said on Wednesday, July 30.

The accused, Shama Parveen Ansari, ran two Facebook pages and an Instagram handle comprising over 10,000 followers sharing extremist and anti-India content of the AQIS and some other radical preachers. She is described as a "digital propagandist" who amplifies Islamic radical viewpoints on social media platforms, an ATS release said.

She has been charged with posting radical messages and promoting "Ghazwa-e-Hind," (a call for Islamic war) on social media platforms, mainly Instagram.

Parveen was...