Hyderabad: A Kenyan-origin woman working as a domestic help at a house in Tolichowki in Hyderabad has come under the scanner of intelligence agencies for her links with the terror group Islamic State after she posted a photograph of an actor with an AK-47 rifle as her profile picture on Facebook.
National and state intelligence agencies kept the 30-year-old woman under surveillance suspecting that she may have been radicalised, following the arrest of Indian Oil Corporation executive Mohd Sirazuddin by the Rajasthan police on Thursday for allegedly forming closed groups to recruit youths for the Islamic State.
Sirazuddin had formed closed groups of IS sympathisers and was in touch with the Hyderabadi woman.
An official of the Telangana state police said, “The 30-year-old Kenyan woman had posted a photograph of the actor Namrata with an AK-47 rifle as her profile picture. After seeing this, IS sympathisers got in touch with her and tried to get her to chat. Sirazuddin also got in touch with her.”
He said several others were also chatting with her due to profile picture. “Apart from chatting with him and others, there is no other involvement found so far regarding the woman,” the officer said.
“We have information that she is returning to Kenya next month. Posting the picture with an AK-47 rifle has landed her in this mess,” he said.
Two youths from Maharashtra along with Sirazuddin are believed to have spread IS ideology on Facebook and Whatsapp. The Special Operations Group and ATS of Rajasthan Police arrested Sirazuddin in Jaipur on Thursday.
Sirazuddin is a native of Kalburagi (Gulbarga) in Karnataka and was accused of instigating youth to join the IS. Police recovered the online magazine Dabik of the terror group, pictures and videos from him.
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