Pune: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Monday morning arrested a software engineer, Zubair Hangargekar (35) from Kondhwa, on the charge of possessing literature of the banned terrorist organisation, al-Qaida . The ATS also detained Hangargekar's friend at the Pune railway station for questioning soon after the two returned from Chennai. They had gone there to attend a function. "We arrested Hangargekar because his laptop, among the 19 laptops seized during the searches in the early hours of Oct 9, was found containing downloaded al-Qaida literature. Downloading such material constitutes an offence," an ATS officer, who did not wish to be named, told TOI.

Apart from the 19 laptops, the ATS had seized 40 cellphones during the Oct 9 searches at multiple locations in

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