Probe Agency NIA Arrests Bengaluru Doctor For Alleged Links With ISIS
Accused Rahman confessed to conspiring with ISIS, police stated (Representational)
New Delhi:
The NIA has arrested an ophthalmologist from a scientific faculty in Bengaluru for allegedly being in contact with ISIS operatives, operating to broaden a scientific and a weaponry-related packages to lend a hand terrorist cadres and furthering its actions within the nation, officers stated Tuesday.
Abdur Rahman, 28, operating at MS Ramaiah Scientific School, was once taken into custody on Monday in reference to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) case being probed by means of the company, they stated.
The ISKP case was once to begin with registered by means of the Delhi Police Particular Mobile in March, 2020, after the arrest of a Kashmiri couple — Jahanzaib Sami Wani and his spouse Hina Bashir Beigh — from Okhla Vihar, Jamia Nagar within the nationwide capital.
The couple having affiliations with the ISKP, an associate staff of ISIS, have been allegedly desirous about subversive and anti-national actions and have been in contact with a member of the Abu Dhabi module of the ISIS, Abdullah Basith, who was once arrested in a separate NIA case and lodged in Tihar prison.
“All the way through interrogation, arrested accused Rahman confessed that he was once conspiring with accused Sami and different Syria-based ISIS operatives on protected messaging platforms to additional ISIS actions. He was once within the means of creating a scientific utility for serving to the injured ISIS cadres within the struggle zones and a weaponry-related utility for the advantage of ISIS warring parties,” NIA spokesperson Sonia Narang stated.
The NIA has discovered that Rahman allegedly toured Syria and visited an ISIS scientific camp in early 2014 for remedy of the terrorists for 10 days and returned to India.
After Rahman’s arrest, the NIA performed searches at 3 of his premises and seized virtual gadgets, cell phone, computer containing incriminating subject matter, Ms Narang stated.
But even so Rahman and the Kashmir couple, the company had additionally arrested two Pune citizens — Sadiya Anwar Sheikh and Nabeel Siddick Khatri — for allegedly being a part of the conspiracy to additional the actions of ISIS/ISKP in India and to hold out subversive actions within the garb of anti-Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) protests.
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