KANPUR, Nov 13: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has detained a medical student from Kanpur in connection with the ongoing investigation into the recent Delhi blast, officials said on Thursday.

The detainee, Dr. Mohammad Arif (32), a first-year MD (Cardiology) student at Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College, was picked up from an undisclosed location. According to officials, ATS teams searched his rented accommodation at Ashok Nagar in Nazirabad, seized his phone and laptop, and later took him to Delhi for questioning.

Arif, a native of Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir, reportedly came under the scanner following disclosures made during the interrogation of former GSVM professor Dr. Shaheen Sayeed, already arrested in the same case. Investigators suspect that

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