Chennai: Five months after special operation guards of the Rajasthan Police picked up a man from Mylapore for allegedly funding the ISIS, sleuths from the same squad on Monday night picked up a 36-year-old man from Kondithope in Chennai on similar charges.
The suspect was identified as Haroon Rasheed, son of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Sarkarai street. A mobile phone shop operator in Burma Bazaar, he had allegedly sent Rs.5 lakh to the accounts of ISIS fighters abroad, police sources said. The sleuths on Tuesday morning took Haroon Rasheed to Jaipur, Rajastan by flight for further questioning.
The Monday night arrest is believed to be the follow-up of the earlier arrest made by Rajasthan cops in February in Chennai when 40-year-old Mohamed Iqbal from Mylapore was picked up after he was found donating generously to ISIS. He had made three donations to ISIS and a team of Intelligence Bureau officials and Rajasthan police had come to trace him, based on evidence of his transactions.
Rajasthan cops had last year arrested one Jameel for his links with ISIS.
Following his arrest only, the sleuths managed to track down Mohamed Iqbal. He was initially picked up along with three others while trying to smuggle Rs 1 crore worth gold bars from Rajamundhry to Chennai by bus at Arambakkam near Gumudipoondi in neighbouring Tiruvallur district. All the four were later handed over to DRI for further action for smuggling while Mohamed Iqbal was taken in for further questioning by Rajasthan Police on donations he had made to ISIS. Sources indicated that there could be more people from Chennai who had extended financial support to ISIS.
