New Delhi: An Afghan businessman is believed to be allegedly indoctrinating youth from Maharashtra to join dreaded Islamic State, claims National Investigation Agency, which has sent its first judicial requests in the case to Afghanistan seeking details of the person.
The Afghan national, whose name has been withheld, was running business of dry fruits in India and allegedly approached the four youths from Kalyan area neighbouring Mumbai and brainwashed them to join ranks of IS, sources said.
The man had mysteriously disappeared after NIA arrested Areeb Majeed when he was deported from Turkey to India last November. The port of exit of the Afghan national was found out to be from Delhi in December last year, the sources said.
They said Letters Rogatory, sent to Afghanistan, has been cleared by the home ministry and will be issued by the competent court this week. The NIA request to the Afghan government includes verification of his address, his complete bank account details, associates in that country and the Gulf and call data records, they said. Majeed was arrested by NIA upon his return from Iraq.
