Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (DV)
Mangaluru, Aug 4: Sleuths of National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at five locations including J&K and Karnataka, and arrested four operatives in connection to ISIS Kerala module case.
On Wednesday August 4, NIA along with state police units conducted simultaneous searches at three locations in Kashmir and one each in Bengaluru and Mangaluru. Four including one from Ullal in Mangaluru were arrested.
The arrested are Obaid Hamid, resident of Bemina, Srinagar; Muzammil Hassan Bhat, resident of Bandipora, Kashmir; Ammar Abdul Rahman, resident of Ullal, Mangaluru; and Shankar Venkatesh Perumal alias Ali Muaviya, a resident of Bengaluru. They were allegedly involved in raising funds and radicalising and motivating more people to join ISIS.
It is said that NIA had registered a suo-moto case against seven known and other unknown accused persons under sections 120B, 121 & 121A of IPC & sections 17, 18, 188, 20, 38 & 40 of UA (P) Act on March 5 earlier this year pertaining to terrorist activities of one Mohammed Ameen alias Abu Yahya, a resident of Kerala and his associates, who have been running various ISIS propaganda channels on different social media platforms such as Telegram, Hoop and Instagram for propagating the violent Jihadi ideology of ISIS and radicalizing and recruiting new members for the ISIS module.
Earlier, NIA had conducted searches and had arrested three accused persons namely Mohamed Ameen, Dr Rahees Rasheed and Mus’Hab Anwar in this case in March 2021.
During investigation, it has been revealed that after the decline of ISIS Caliphate in Syria/Iraq, Mohammed Ameen had visited Kashmir in March 2020 for Hijrah (Religious migration) and for engaging in terrorist acts and had also raised funds in association with Kashmir based accused Mohammad Waqar Lone alias Wilson Kashmiri and his associates. As part of conspiracy, funds were also transferred to Mohammed Waqar Lone by accused in the case through banking channels and digital payment methods on the directions of Mohammed Ameen, Mohammed Ameen and his associates were also radicalizing gullible Muslim youths for joining Jihad and unlawful activities in India and had been successful in expanding the network in Kashmir and part of Kerala and Karnataka.