New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday filed the primary supplementary chargesheet in opposition to three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives, together with an absconding Pakistani woman, in a web based recruitment case registered final 12 months in West Bengal.
The chargesheet was filed within the NIA particular courtroom, Kolkata in opposition to Tania Parveen alias Isranoor and Refite of Malayapur-Baduria (North 24 Parganas), Sayyad M Idris alias Munna of Anganavadi (Karnataka), and absconding accused Ayesha alias Ayesha Burhan and Ayesha Siddiqi of Gali Brahwali village of Sargoda in Punjab (Pakistan), an NIA spokesperson mentioned.
The spokesperson mentioned the case was initially registered on March 18 final 12 months on the Baduria Police Station in North 24 Parganas district following the arrest of Parveen, a member of the proscribed Pakistan-based terrorist organisation.
The NIA had re-registered the case after taking on the investigation on April 5, 2020 and had already filed a chargesheet in opposition to Parveen beneath numerous sections of the stringent UA(P) Act.
“Parveen was a college student and was radicalised and recruited in cyberspace by Pakistan-based cadres of LeT. She was co-admin of various social media groups espousing secessionist ideas on Kashmir with accused Ayesha Burhan, a Pakistan-based cadre of LeT’s women’s wing,” the spokesman mentioned.
The spokesperson mentioned Parveen in affiliation with different accused members of LeT in India and Pakistan indulged in illegal actions, radicalised, recruited and motivated different individuals by way of our on-line world for a violent ‘Jihad’ (holy conflict) in opposition to India.
“She and other accused were brainwashing impressionable youth and propagating the ideology of LeT, thus conspiring to wage war against the State,” the spokesperson mentioned as extra prices have been framed in opposition to her within the newest chargesheet.
On Apr 15, the NIA arrested schoolteacher Altaf Ahmad Rather from his residence in north Kashmir’s Bandipora district within the case.
“Investigation has revealed that Rather is a schoolteacher in Bandipora and was a sympathiser of the LeT. Parveen had come in contact with him over social media platforms and he was instrumental in introducing her to LeT members based in Pakistan, in pursuance of a conspiracy to radicalise, motivate and recruit youths for violent ‘Jihad’ (holy war) on India,” the NIA had mentioned.
However, Rather was not named within the chargesheet as additional investigation within the case remains to be occurring, officers mentioned.
