The CBI had earlier said that Shangloo was absconding and was arrested after 36 years for his alleged involvement in the 1989 abduction of Rubiya Sayeed.

According to the CBI, Shangloo was carrying a reward of Rs 10 lakhs and had conspired with JKLF chief Yasin Malik and others in committing a crime under various sections of RPC and the TADA Act during 1989.

JKLF militants had abducted Rubiya Sayeed, then a medical intern, on December 8, 1989, in Srinagar.

Her abduction took place when her father, late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, was Home Minister in the then V P Singh government. She was released by militants in exchange for five militants released by the then Farooq Abdullah government.

Shangloo was alleged to be a close confidant of detained JKLF chief Mohammad Yasin Malik, who is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar Jail. Malik has been convicted in a terror financing case and sentenced to two life sentences for offences under the UAPA and IPC, along with 10-year sentences, all to run concurrently.

Malik is also accused in the Rubiya Sayeed kidnapping case and is facing trial. During the trial, Rubiya Sayeed has identified Yasin Malik as one of the abductors.

Malik has been attending the court hearings of the case through video conferencing.