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Tauseef Ali Farooqui, a fourth-year Biotechnology student at IIT-Guwahati who was detained last week after he allegedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, was a loner and did not have any friends on campus, the police said on Friday...
Farooqui was sent to 10 days of police custody by a Guwahati court on Friday..
The police also took him to his hostel room where police recovered a black flag similar to the Islamic State flag, along with a manuscript...
According to police sources, a look-out alert was issued for Farooqui, who is a resident of Delhi, after he wrote an open letter on LinkedIn stating the reason for his decision...
When police contacted the IIT-Guwahati authorities, they said that the student had been "missing' and his mobile phone had been switched off...
