The Kashmiri woman and her husband are accused of having links with the terrorist organisation Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) and for their alleged role in anti-CAA riots.
The Muslim radicals had attacked the professor as a punishment for the alleged reference to Prophet Mohammed in a question paper that he prepared for an internal exam in 2010.
The NIA officials stated that Tamil Nadu tops the list of Indian states where anti-terror agencies have unearthed modules of Salafi jihadi terrorist organization IS over a period of five years since 2014.