Srinagar: Amid the probe into the Delhi blast, Jammu and Kashmir Police on Wednesday detained a preacher from Mewat in Haryana, for suspected links to the 'white collar' terror module in Faridabad, marking the ninth arrest in the case. 

The accused, Maulvi Ishtiyaq, who has been brought to Srinagar, was staying in a rented house within the Al Falah University complex in Faridabad, from where more than 2,500 kg of ammonium nitrate, potassium chlorate and sulphur were recovered. The police suspect that he is linked to the 'white collar' terror module operating from a university in Faridabad.

He is likely to be placed under arrest.

He will be the ninth person to be nabbed in the case by police, which carried out an interstate raid on November 10 along with their counterparts in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, to unravel a 'white-collar' terror network of banned Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind.

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The explosive material was stored at his rented residence by Dr Muzammil Ganaie alias Musaib and Dr Umar Nabi, the man who was driving an explosives-laden car which detonated outside Red Fort on Monday evening, killing 12 people.

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