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  • ISIS module: Six arrested after NIA raids 7 locations in Kashmir

    Express News Service
    SRINAGAR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday raided seven locations in Kashmir in a case regarding online radicalisation by Islamic State in India and arrested six suspects, including the head of a Darul Uloom (Islamic seminary).

    The NIA team accompanied by police and paramilitary personnel did simultaneous raids in Srinagar and Anantnag in south Kashmir. The case was registered by NIA on June 29 under IPC and UAPA in connection with the conspiracy of the ISIS to radicalise and recruit youth to wage violent jihad against the Indian state, an NIA officer said, adding that an organised campaign was launched on the cyber space which is supplemented by on ground terror financing activities.

    Sources said the NIA raided the Darul Uloom at Nawab Bazar area in downtown Srinagar. “During the search of the Darul Uloom, NIA seized a laptop and some office records. They also arrested the head of the Darul Uloom.” During the raids at Pushroo, Sunsooma, and Achabal in Anantnag district, the NIA sleuths arrested six persons including a garment dealer, a chemist, a laboratory technician, two shopkeepers and the Darul Uloom head. 

    An NIA spokesperson said the multiple raids led to confiscation of incriminating documents and digital devices. The spokesperson added ISIS militants operating from various conflict zones along with those in India, by assuming pseudo-online identities, have created a network wherein ISIS-related propaganda material is disseminated for radicalising and recruiting new members. 

    “In this connection an India-centric online propaganda magazine ‘the Voice of Hind’ is published on monthly basis with an aim to incite and radicalise impressionable youth by projecting a skewed narrative to arouse a feeling of alienation and communal hatred,” the spokesperson said. The NIA raids took place a day after the J&K government sacked 11 government employees, including two sons of Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin, for their alleged involvement in anti-national activities.  

  • Court seeks Tihar’s response on ISIS man allegation he was forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday sought response from Tihar jail authorities on an application moved by an alleged ISIS member claiming that he was beaten up by other inmates there and was forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

    The accused, Rashid Zafar, was arrested in 2018 on the allegations of being members of an ISIS-inspired group that were planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting politicians as also government installations, in Delhi and other parts of north India.

    Special Judge Parveen Singh issued notice to Tihar jail superintendent and sought the reply to Zafar’s application by June 14, when the court will further hear the matter.

    The application said that the incident was disclosed by the accused to his father telephonically from Tihar Jail.

    “The accused was beaten up and forced to chant religious slogans like ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by his inmates,” advocate M S Khan, appearing for the accused, claimed.

    The plea, moved by advocate Qausar Khan, requested that “appropriate directions may be passed to the Jail Superintendent to look into the matter.”

     The accused were arrested along with nine others in December 2018 after NIA carried out searches, in coordination with Special cell of Delhi Police and Anti-Terrorism Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police, at six places in Jafrabad, Seelampur in Delhi, and 11 places in Uttar Pradesh — six in Amroha, two in Lucknow, two in Hapur and two in Meerut.

    The searches and the arrests came a month before the Republic Day celebrations on January 26. According to NIA, a locally-made rocket launcher, material for suicide vests and 112 alarm clocks to be used as timers were recovered from the searches.

    The agency also said it recovered 25 kg of explosive material — Potassium Nitrate, Ammonium Nitrate and Sulphur.

    The group allegedly had also purchased remote control cars and wireless doorbells to use their circuits in assembling remote-controlled improvised explosive devices.

    Besides, the NIA also recovered steel containers, electric wires, 91 mobile phones, 134 SIM cards, 3 laptops, knife, sword, ISIS-related literature during the searches.

    The probe agency had initially rounded up 16 persons of the group ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’, which loosely translates into war for the cause of Islam.

    Of the 16 detained, 10 were later arrested – five from Amroha, in UP and five from Seelampur and Jafrabad localities in north-east Delhi, the agency had said.

  • Forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ inside Tihar, ‘ISIS man’ tells court

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: An alleged ISIS member arrested for planning suicide attacks and serial blasts across the country, approached a Delhi court on Wednesday claiming that he was beaten up by other inmates in Tihar jail and forced to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

    The accused, Rashid Zafar, was arrested in 2018 on the allegations of being member of an ISIS-inspired group who were planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting politicians as also government installations in Delhi and other parts of north India.

    Advocate M S Khan claimed in the application, which is likely to come up for hearing on Thursday, that the incident was disclosed by the accused to his father telephonically from Tihar Jail.

    “The accused was beaten up and forced to chant religious slogans like ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by his inmates,” the application said.

    The plea, moved by advocate Qausar Khan, requested that “appropriate directions may be passed to the Jail Superintendent to look into the matter”.

    The accused were arrested along with nine others in December 2018 after NIA carried out searches, in coordination with Special cell of Delhi Police and Anti-Terrorism Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police, at six places in Jafrabad, Seelampur in Delhi, and 11 places in Uttar Pradesh — six in Amroha, two in Lucknow, two in Hapur and two in Meerut.

    The searches and the arrests came a month before the Republic Day celebrations on January 26. According to NIA, a locally-made rocket launcher, material for suicide vests and 112 alarm clocks to be used as timers were recovered from the searches.

    The agency also said it recovered 25 kg of explosive material — Potassium Nitrate, Ammonium Nitrate and Sulphur.

    The group allegedly had also purchased remote control cars and wireless doorbells to use their circuits in assembling remote-controlled improvised explosive devices.

    Besides, the NIA also recovered steel containers, electric wires, 91 mobile phones, 134 SIM cards, 3 laptops, knife, sword, ISIS-related literature during the searches.

    The probe agency had initially rounded up 16 persons of the group ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’, which loosely translates into war for the cause of Islam.

    Of the 16 detained, 10 were later arrested – five from Amroha, in UP and five from Seelampur and Jafrabad localities in north-east Delhi, the agency had said.

  • Bombay HC reserves verdict on NIA challenge to bail for alleged ex-ISIS member Areeb Majeed

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on an appeal filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) challenging the bail granted to alleged former ISIS member Areeb Majeed.

    During the arguments, a division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale observed that if Majeed had utilized his abilities in a different way instead of heading for war-torn Syria, it would have been a matter of joy to his family as well the country.

    The NIA has alleged that Majeed travelled to Syria to join the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and later returned to India to carry out terror activities. He was arrested in November 2014 under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

    In March 2020, he was granted bail by a special NIA court. Opposing the NIA’s appeal, Majeed claimed that he had gone to Syria only “to help people”, and denied the central agency’s allegations. The judges then asked why a 21-year-old would even think of going to Iraq and Syria.

    “Why would a 21-year-old go to Iraq for people who he has never met in his life by leaving his family behind? Don’t you have enough suffering around you,” the bench asked.

    Before reserving its order, the HC asked Majeed what would he do if he continues to be out on bail. Majeed said he would get a degree in law. “If you had utilized your abilities to the best at the age of 21 it would have been a matter of joy for the family and for the country,” Justice Pitale stated.

  • NIA detains 10 people in connection with probe into new ISIS module

    The NIA on Wednesday detained 10 persons from Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi for their suspected involvement with a new ISIS inspired terror module planning to carry out blasts in north India, especially in the national capital, officials said.

    The National Investigation Agency conducted searches across 16 locations in Uttar Pradesh and New Delhi in connection with its probe into the new module called ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’, they said.

    Of the 10 persons detained by the anti-terror probe agency, five were picked up from the western Uttar Pradesh district of Amroha following a joint operation with the UP Anti-Terrorist Squad, Inspector General ATS Asim Arun said in Lucknow.

    Five more were detained from north-east Delhi with the help of Delhi Police’s Special Cell, officials said.

    “The searches are going on,” an NIA spokesperson said.

    The group was under NIA surveillance for some time following inputs of their  suspicious activities, officials said.

  • Editorial :- Aatankavaadiyon ke Amaranaath Yaatra Par Hamalon ke Uparaant…

    PakPart Rahul Gandhi and CM of China Parvez K. Vijayan conspiring to defame India Trying to divide the country on casteism and to create separatism. These anti-national acts for votes are inappropriate.

    Rahul Gandhi has given ISIS certification in Germany saying that the current Modi government of India is creating unemployment, which is ISIS job giving organization?

    They said that the reason for mobs lining was also unemployment. Not only that, according to him, the situation of civil war in India and the cause of the rise of ISIS are unemployed.

    Even today in the UK, Rahul Gandhi gave oxygen to these elements, which have flourished in Pakistan by giving similar statements today. He has done with the RSS’s Tulu Brotherhood Organization.

    Encouraged by the Pakistan-funded Hurriyat, separatist elements throw stones at the Indian army. At that time, infiltrated terrorists from Pakistan often attack Amarnath pilgrims.

    The way Kashmir and ISI flags are being wiped by the said separatist elements in Kashmir, in the same way, the separatist elements are involved in violent action by the assassination of the Congress and other opposition parties in other areas of India.

    Today news of attack on Kadiyadis in Malpura of Tonk and Bareilly has been received. It is worth mentioning here that this Malpura region of Rahul Gandhi’s guide Ashok Gehlot is dear. Only Gehlot has been able to get the culprit active at all times. Earlier, violent riots have taken place and anti-India slogans have been floating by blowing the ISI and Pak’s flag.

    This incident has happened in Bareilly too today. The people are careful about Rahul Gandhi’s speeches that disrespect India and dissolve the unity of the country and the false rumors of CM Vijayan of Kerala and keep the unity in the country.

  • Now again Hindu Terror propaganda by Janeudhari Rahul and Sidharamaiah for gettting support of Jihadi PFI

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