The Kochi team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested absconding accused Abdul Jaleel for his role in the Kannur PFI camp case. He was picked up from the house of his wife at Narath, Kannur.
He is being brought to Kochi and will be produced before the NIA Special Court.
He was officiating Chairman of Thanal Foundation, which owned the hall where the terrorist training camp was conducted by the Popular Front of India (PFI).
Earlier, Twenty-one people belonging to the PFI were convicted by a special NIA court in Kerala of terrorist acts for organizing a terror camp in Kannur in 2013.