A suspected member of the Jaish-e-Mohammad group has been arrested from a truck on the National Highway at Ambala Cantonment area in Ambala,police said on Saturday.

The terrorist has been identified as Mohammad Ismail, aresident of Jammu and Kashmir, Ambala Superintendent of Police Abhishek Jorwalsaid.

The police received an information on Friday evening fromJammu and Kashmir military intelligence and Punjab police that a suspectedmilitant of JeM was passing through Ambala in an apple-laden truck goingtowards Delhi, the SP said.

After getting the tip-off, the police set up a 'naka' onAmbala-Delhi National Highway and started a search for the militant.

When the police stopped the truck, they found a man sittingin the truck who could not give his identity proof, which arouse suspicion,they said.

Jorwal said that Ambala police informed Jammu and Kashmirpolice, Army intelligence and Punjab police in this regard. The man was laterhanded over to Jammu police.

The SP said that he had contacted his counterpart in Jammu,but the exact details about the terrorist could not be revealed so for.

Punjab police and Army intelligence were already chasing thetruck from Sirhind in Punjab.