UP ATS picks up couple in Bhopal for alleged naxal connection

The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh police Tuesday took a couple, allegedly having links with the naxals, in its custody here. Manish and his wife Amita alias Varsha, who hail from Jaunpur district of UP, were produced before a local court.

Judicial Magistrate Bharat Kumar Vyas granted the ATS the couple's transit remand till July 12 so that they could be taken to UP and produced before a court there. The couple shouted "Inqilab Zindabad" (long live the revolution) outside the court.

The couple, hailing from Jaunpur in UP, were picked by the ATS from a house in Shahpura locality here, a local police official said. Sources said the ATS also seized some material including naxal literature from the house..