Thrashed, forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ inside Tihar: ISIS member tells court
An alleged ISIS member arrested for planning suicide assaults and serial blasts throughout the nation, approached a Delhi court on Wednesday claiming that he was crushed up by different inmates in Tihar jail and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’. The accused, recognized as Rashid Zafar, was arrested in 2018 on the allegations of being a member of an ISIS-inspired group that was planning suicide assaults and serial blasts, concentrating on politicians as additionally authorities installations in Delhi and different elements of north India.
Advocate MS Khan claimed within the utility, which is probably going to come up for listening to on Thursday, that the incident was disclosed by the accused to his father telephonically from Tihar Jail.
“The accused was beaten up and forced to chant religious slogans like ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by his inmates,” the applying stated.
The plea, moved by advocate Qausar Khan, requested that “acceptable instructions could also be handed to the Jail Superintendent to look into the matter”.
Meanwhile, Tihar Jail officers have refuted all such allegations and have stated the accused Rashid Zafar did self-harm by banging his head right into a wall. The officers additional stated Zafar even tried to enter a ward inside the jail premises and made the alleged video.
We try to recuperate the telephone utilizing which the video was shot, they stated.
The background
The accused was arrested together with 9 others in December 2018 after NIA carried out searches, in coordination with Special cell of Delhi Police and Anti-Terrorism Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police, at six locations in Jafrabad, Seelampur in Delhi, and 11 locations in Uttar Pradesh — six in Amroha, two in Lucknow, two in Hapur and two in Meerut.
The searches and the arrests got here a month earlier than the Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
According to NIA, a locally-made rocket launcher, materials for suicide vests and 112 alarm clocks to be used as timers had been recovered from the searches.
The company additionally stated it recovered 25 kg of explosive materials — Potassium Nitrate, Ammonium Nitrate and Sulphur.
The group allegedly had additionally bought distant management vehicles and wi-fi doorbells to use their circuits in assembling remote-controlled improvised explosive gadgets.
Besides, the NIA additionally recovered metal containers, electrical wires, 91 cellphones, 134 SIM playing cards, 3 laptops, a knife, a sword, ISIS-related literature throughout the searches.
The probe company had initially rounded up 16 individuals of the group ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’, which loosely interprets into struggle for the reason for Islam.
Of the 16 detained, 10 had been later arrested – 5 from Amroha, in UP and 5 from Seelampur and Jafrabad localities in north-east Delhi, the company had stated.
