The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Saturday an individual from Batla House in New Delhi on costs of being an energetic member of the Islamic State (IS). The accused has been recognized as Mohsin Ahmed, a everlasting resident of Patna.
Ahmed was arrested after searches carried out at his premises and elsewhere Saturday in a case pertaining to “online and on-ground activities of the ISIS” registered by the company on June 25.
“Accused Mohsin Ahmad is a radicalised and active member of ISIS. He has been arrested for his involvement in collection of funds for ISIS from sympathisers in India as well as abroad. He was sending these funds to Syria and other places in form of cryptocurrency in order to further the activities of ISIS,” the NIA stated in an announcement Sunday.
Last Sunday, the company carried out searches at 13 areas throughout six states within the case.
“NIA conducted searches at 13 premises of suspects in 6 states viz. Bhopal and Raisen districts in Madhya Pradesh; Bharuch, Surat, Navsari and Ahmedabad districts in Gujarat; Araria district in Bihar; Bhatkal and Tumkur City districts in Karnataka; Kolhapur and Nanded districts in Maharashtra; and Deoband districts in Uttar Pradesh in the case pertaining to activities of ISIS,” the NIA had stated in an announcement then.
The company had stated searches had been carried out had led to the seizure of “incriminating documents/material”.
On the identical day, the NIA had additionally carried out searches in Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala within the case pertaining to the arrest of 1 Sathik Batcha alias ICAMA Sathik, who was arrested in February this 12 months together with 4 others in Tamil Nadu.
According to the NIA, the accused had hatched a conspiracy for threatening most of the people and police officers and in addition tried to homicide the police personnel in the course of the checking of their Scorpio automobile after they had been intercepted on February 21, 2022.
“The accused persons were also involved in inciting hatred for secession of a part of India and had intended to disrupt the sovereignty and territorial integrity of India by forming outfits like “Khilafah Party of India”, “Khilafah Front of India”, “Intellectual Students of India (ISI)” and associating themselves with the proscribed terrorist organizations ISIS/Daesh and Al Qaeda,” the NIA had stated in an announcement.
The case was earlier registered by Tamil Nadu Police and later taken over by the NIA this 12 months.
The searches led to the seizure of digital units and incriminating paperwork, the NIA assertion stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
