A 21-year-old has been arrested in Belagavi in north Karnataka for sedition for allegedly photographing important places, including airports, railway stations and bus stations across the state on his smartphone camera. The police have also picked up three others from Kalburgi town for questioning.

Mohammed Hussein Ali Qureshi, a resident of Kalburgi who works as a nameplate artist and vendor for an Urdu daily, was arrested from Sambra airport in Belagavi while he was allegedly photographing it Tuesday.