HYDERABAD, Nov 13: The personnel of an intelligence agency searched the office of a banned militant organization at Tilak Incline on Tuesday night and seized literature and other record.

The search was conducted in presence of the Market police station SHO Hassan Ali Abdi and two activists of the organization.

Police sources said the agency personnel took away literature, including books written by chief of the group, Maulana Masud Azhar, cassettes of his recent sermons and record of the organization’s workers.

EMBRACES ISLAM: A teenaged Hindu boy embraced Islam as his family alleges that he has been forced by his employer to convert.

Kanhya Lal, now named Shoaib, was employed at a music shop on the Tulsi Das Road.

His family members held a demonstration outside the press club here on Wednesday, claiming that the boy was forced by his employer, Akbar, to convert.

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