New Delhi/Hyderabad: Three ISIS sympathisers including one Adnan Damudi, a native of Bhatkal in Karnataka who was detained in November last year in Dubai based on the information provided by the Telangana police, were deported by the UAE on Friday.
Two others, Mohammed Farhan and Sheikh Azhar Al Islam of Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir, respectively, were also deported. They were taken into custody at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi by the National Investigation Agency.
It has also been alleged that the trio, from the Abu Dhabi module of ISIS, was planning to carry out terror attacks in the country. The NIA, after registering a case, is questioning the suspects and a formal arrest is expected soon.
Damudi, 33, was an online recruiter for the ISIS who had played a key role in radicalising several youths from Hyderabad and had motivated them towards jihadi terrorism.
Adnan was an assistant delivery coordinator at the World Trade Centre in Dubai. Police said he had got radicalised and funded the four engineering college dropouts, including Abdul Basith of Chandrayan-gutta, to travel to Syria. The TS police had detained them near Malda in West Bengal and brought them back to Hyderabad in August 2014.
Damudi had instigated the youths to get in touch with one Sultan Armar who had directed them to travel to Bangladesh.
Adnan was using twitter to spread ISIS ideology
Abdul Basith, one of the terror trio cousins, was later arrested at Nagpur, in December 2015, while he was trying to fly to Kashmir to join terror groups.
Police identified that Damudi was propagating IS ideology through his twitter handle @Adnan-Damudi. He is a commerce graduate and was in touch with Sultan Armar of Bhatkal who was killed in Kobane in Syria in 2014. After Armar death, his brother Yusuf alias Shafi Armar took over the charge of ISIS activities for India and is now in Syria. The name of Yusuf had cropped up during the recent crackdown by NIA and TS police.
On September 15, 2015, the UAE had deported four Indians suspected of having ISIS links. The UAE had also sent back 37-year-old Afsha Jabeen alias Nicky Joseph who was allegedly involving in recruiting youths for ISIS.
