Laptop analyst, dentist despatched Bengaluru youths to sign up for IS: NIA

The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has named a dentist and a pc packages specialist as key individuals occupied with sending a bunch of six to seven youths from Bengaluru to Syria within the 2013-14 duration to sign up for the Islamic State. (Report picture)

The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has named a dentist and a pc packages specialist as key individuals occupied with sending a bunch of six to seven youths from Bengaluru to Syria within the 2013-14 duration to sign up for the Islamic State.

The NIA registered its case on September 19 beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act or UAPA and named dentist Muhammad Tauqir Mahmood (29) and pc packages specialist Zuhaib Hameed alias Shakeel Manna (28), either one of whom previous lived in Bengaluru however are lately reportedly founded in Saudi Arabia.

The 2 are purported to have constructed contacts with IS via a schoolmate from Saudi Arabia — the place Tauqir and every other NIA suspect, Shihab, studied all the way through their college years.

The life of the crowd who travelled to Syria got here to mild after the August 17 arrest of Abdur Rahman, a 28-year-old ophthalmologist from Bengaluru, on fees of conspiring with a Kashmiri guy arrested in Delhi in March, for alleged hyperlinks to an Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) unit in India. The company’s investigation of Abdur Rahman printed that he had travelled to Syria in 2013-14 with the help of Tauqir and Hameed.

As a part of its investigations, the NIA on October 7 arrested industry analyst Ahamed Abdul Cader (40) from Chennai and rice service provider Irfan Nasir (33) in Bengaluru for allegedly investment “the Bengaluru-based ISIS module”.

“Accused Ahamed Abdul Cader, Irfan Nasir and their friends performed an overly important function in radicalization of the individuals of the crowd and organized budget via donations and personal resources for consult with of accused Abdur Rahman and different Muslim early life of Bengaluru to Syria to sign up for ISIS. Two of such early life were given killed in Syria,” the NIA mentioned after the October 7 arrests.

The 2 killed in Syria had been recognized as Faiz Masood, an MBA degree-holder, and Abdul Subhan, who used to be operating in Yemen earlier than becoming a member of IS.

Investigations via the NIA and different companies have printed that an orthopaedic physician and an aeronautical engineer had been a number of the youths who travelled to Syria in 2013-14. Each are reported to have returned to India inside of a brief span in their keep in Syria after witnessing heavy violence at shut quarters.

A senior police officer mentioned, “There appear to have been many youths who travelled from Bengaluru to Syria on the time. Some returned to India after quick visits whilst some appear to have died there. The identities of all those that went are being unearthed now.”

Investigations for the reason that arrest of Abdur Rahman and the wondering of 2 of his friends who travelled to Syria have printed that they met Masood, one of the vital youths killed, in a the city known as Atme after they crossed over from Turkey in 2013.

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