SRINAGAR: Former Sharda University Kashmiri student Ehtisham Bilal Sofi, 23, who had joined ISJK (J&K chapter of the Islamic State) after "disappearing" from Noida on October 28, "surrendered" before the police on Sunday."He arrived home today but was picked up by the police," said his father Bilal Ahmed Sofi, adding that the family had made an appeal to Ehtisham to shun terrorism and return home. Etisham's mother had also appealed to ISJK chief Zakir Musa to send back her "only son."A police officer of Srinagar city, North zone, confirmed that the student-turned-militant was taken into custody for questioning. "Don't call it arrest," he said.Ehtisham had moved to Greated Noida in September and was studying Medical Imaging Technology.On October 1, groups of Indian and Afghani students fought in campus and his involvement was also reported, for which he was served a show cause notice by the varsity. In the next few days, Ehtisham and other Afghani and Kashmiri students allegedly faced hate speeches by student groups, which also demanded their evictionOn October 28, he informed his hostel warden and his father that he is going on a trip to Delhi but went missing and later it was revealed that Ehtisham had joined the ISJK.

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