ISIS terror module case: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet against six accused folks concerned in the Maharashtra ISIS terror-module case. They had been concerned in recruitment and fund-raising for the worldwide terrorist organisation.
NIA files chargesheet against six key accused in Maharashtra ISIS terror module case.
NIA investigations to this point in the case have revealed a bigger conspiracy with worldwide linkages and the involvement of foreign-based ISIS handlers. The investigations have additionally uncovered a posh community of people dedicated to propagating the extremist and violent ideology of ISIS inside India, NIA officers acknowledged.
Accused are members of proscribed ISIS outfit
The accused have been recognized as Tabish Nasser Siddiqui of Mumbai, Zulfikar Ali Barodawala alias Lalabhai, Sharjeel Shaikh and Aakif Ateeque Nachan of Borivali-Padgha, in addition to Zubair Noor Mohammad Shaikh alias Abu Nusaiba and Dr Adnanali Sarkar of Pune. All the six accused had been held in July throughout a number of raids in Maharashtra by the NIA in the ISIS module case.
The NIA mentioned all six are members of the proscribed ISIS outfit and had hatched a conspiracy to additional terrorist actions of the organisation with the intention to strike worry and terror among the many folks and to threaten the safety, secular ethos and tradition of India in addition to its democratic system of governance.
Two of those accused, Zulfikar Ali Barodawala and Aakif Ateeque Nachan, had been earlier additionally chargesheeted in the Pune ISIS module case for the fabrication of IEDs for triggering blasts.
Accused had been propagating extremist ideology of ISIS
The accused, chargesheeted earlier than the NIA Special Court, Mumbai, underneath varied sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Penal Code, had been engaged in actively propagating the violent and extremist ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and in finishing up acts preparatory to terrorist violence by means of recruitment of people to the organisation and its trigger, it acknowledged.
“Two accused, Tabish and Zulfikar, had taken an oath of allegiance (Bayath) to the self-styled Khalifa (leader) of the ISIS,” the probe company mentioned.
What NIA discovered?
The accused had been discovered in possession of incriminating materials associated to ‘Hijrah’ to Syria, together with propaganda magazines like ‘Voice of Hind’ and ‘Voice of Khurasan’ revealed by ISIS, the NIA mentioned in a press be aware.
Further, the accused had been sharing DIY (Do It Yourself) kits with their contacts. The accused had been additionally discovered to be elevating funds to finance their terror plans and designs, as per NIA investigations.
The materials seized clearly uncovered the sturdy and energetic hyperlinks of the accused with ISIS and their efforts to encourage susceptible youth to additional the terror organisation’s anti-India agenda, the NIA mentioned.
The case was registered by NIA Mumbai on June 28, 2023, against Tabish Nasser Siddiqui and others, following info obtained by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) relating to a conspiracy hatched by them to disturb the unity, integrity, safety and sovereignty of the nation and to wage a warfare against the Government of India by selling the terrorist actions of ISIS, it added.
Further investigations in the case are persevering with in accordance with the provisions of Section 173(8) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).
It could also be famous that ISIS, additionally recognized by the names Islamic State (IS), Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Daish, Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), ISIS Wilayat Khorasan, Islamic State of Iraq and Sham Khorasan (ISIS-Okay), has been working by means of varied modules to unfold terror throughout India.
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