NIA files chargesheet against Nellai IS man
Moideen underwent training for terror unit in Syria.
Chennai: The national investigation agency had filed a chargesheet in a court in Ernakulam, Kerala against Subahani Haja Moideen, a resident of Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu under IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 122 (collecting arms with an intention of raging a war against government of India) and 125 of IPC besides sections 20, 38 (offence relating to membership of terrorist organisations to and 39 (supporting terror outfit) of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The native of Thodupuzha, Kerala was arrested by the NIA on October 5, 2016 from Tirunelveli. NIA said that between April and September 2015 he went out of the country and joined ISIS in Iraq and underwent training with the terrorist organisation before waging war against the Asiatic nation.
Moideen was arrested when he returned home from Mosul in Iraq via Istanbul. Moideen underwent training in Syria where he received instructions on arms as well as lessons on Sharia enforcement.
He was then given a two-week combat training session during which he was injured and after which he was given the job of guarding tents of ISIS militants, on a salary of $100 per month. Moideen also told investigators that he wanted to come back after witnessing the brutalities committed by ISIS in Mosul. He was jailed when he asked his ISIS bosses to allow him to leave. He later escaped from Mosul and travelled to Istanbul, Turkey where he contacted the Indian consulate and returned to India via Mumbai on September 22, 2015. On return, he went to Kerala and got in touch with ISIS handlers again, after which he was arrested.
Another chargesheet filed by the NIA in Ernakulam court against 7 persons in connection with forming an ISIS module. Rashid Ali, who was one among them, was arrested from Coimbatore. All the seven were also charge sheeted under sections of criminal conspiracy, waging war against government of India, besides various sections of unlawful activities (prevention) act.
They were arrested by the NIA from Kannur district of Kerala while they were conducting a secret meeting of the ISIS module named Ansarul Khilafa Kerala formed in August 2016.