Hyderabad: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has booked a case against a resident of Telangana state and eight others from Tamil Nadu for their suspected ISIS links and for some blasts in Chennai and other cities.
NIA’s Delhi unit booked a case in relation to an ISIS case in Tamil Nadu following orders from the Union home ministry, citing criminal conspiracy and other charges framed under sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.
Name of city ISIS link not revealed
“The Central government has received information that during an NIA investigation into the Abu Dhabi module that a group of nine persons — eight of them from Tamil Nadu and one from Telangana — and some other unknown persons had hatched a criminal conspiracy,” the NIA said.
The conspiracy was hatched in Chennai and some other parts of the country with the intention to further the activities of ISIS, a banned terrorist organisation in India. They formed a terrorist module, which raised and received funds, organised camps, recruited and trained some persons, and facilitated their travel to Syria, to join the ISIS, the NIA said.
The name of the Hyderabad accused has not been revealed. NIA is suspecting that the accused has left for the UAE and from there to Syria.
The Abu Dhabi module includes Sheikh Azhar Al Islam Abdul Sattar Sheikh, Mohammed Farhan Mohammed Rafiq Shaikh and Adnan Hussain Mohd Hussain along with some other conspirators.
