New Delhi, Jan 13: In its chargesheet against a medical doctor accused of furthering the cause of the Islamic State, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said that the accused had used his knowledge to develop applications for the outfit.
The NIA charged Abdur Rehman alias Dr. Brave and said that he had furthered the ideology and and activities of the ISIS in connivance with co-accused Jahanazib Sami and others to commit subversive and anti-national activities in India.
New Delhi, Jan 07: The National Investigation Agency has arrested an absconding accused in connection with the killing of police sub-inspector Wilson.
The arrested accused has been identified as Shihabudeen alias Khalid, aged 39. He is a resident of Chennai.
New Delhi, Nov 03: The Vienna attack shot dead by the police was a sympathiser of the Islamic State, according to Austria’s interior minister Karl Nehammer. He also said that the dead attacker was a radicalised person who felt close to ISIS.
This attack is yet another grim reminder of how dangerous the outfit and its ideology continues to be despite it losing its chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and also facing significant loses in its heartlands of Iraq and Syria.
New Delhi, Oct 23: Voice of Hind, the propaganda digital magazine of the Islamic State has come out with nine editions so far. In every edition, it has sent out a message to the Indian Muslims that they should rise against the government.
In its latest edition, the ISIS speaks in detail against the demolition of the Babri Masjid. It also speaks about the acquittals in the case and exhorts the Indian Muslims to wage violent jihad against the Indian government.
New Delhi, Oct 17: A special court of the National Investigation Agency has sentenced 15 accused in connection with the Islamic State Delhi conspiracy case.
The NIA said that the ISIS was trying to establish its base in India by recruiting Muslim youth into the ISIS. During investigation, searches were conducted in various cities across the country and 19 accused were arrested. It was revealed that the accused persons had formed an organisation by the name Junood-ul-Khilafa-Fil-Hind (a group seeking to establish Caliphate in India and pledging allegiance to ISIS/ISIL) to recruit Muslim youth to work for ISIS and commit acts of terrorism in India at the behest of one Yusuf-Al-Hindi who was based in Syria.
New Delhi, Oct 09: The investigations conducted by the National Investigation Agency has revealed that the two arrested persons from Bengaluru and Tamil Nadu had set up a group called the Quran Circle. This group was used to radicalise gullible Muslim youth in Bengaluru.
Further the probe revealed that the group was also used to raise funds to sponsor the visit of these radicalised youth to Syria where they were supposed to assist the Islamic State terrorists.
New Delhi, Sep 26: A specula National Investigation Agency court has convicted an Islamic State terrorist in connection with the Omar Al-Hindi Module case.
The terrorist to be convicted is Subahani Haja Mohideen, a resident of Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu. The case was registered by the NIA in October 2016 based on information that certain youth had entered into a conspiracy and were preparing to carry out terrorist attacks in India with the objective of furthering the objectives of the ISIS.
New Delhi, Sep 21: The busting of the Al-Qaeda module in Kerala comes as no surprise as its subsidiary, the Base Movement has been very active in the state.
It has been mentioned on several occasions that both the Islamic State as well as the Al-Qaeda have found it easy to make inroads in Kerala. The terror groups work in a different manner in Kerala and it is the spread of the ideology which has been primary focus.
New Delhi, Sep 18: The Parliament was earlier this week informed that the National Investigation Agency has registered 17 cases relating to the presence of the Islamic State in southern India.
The states in which cases have been registered are Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. Further, the agency has also arrested 122 operatives, the Ministry of Home Affairs said.
New Delhi, Sep 14: A special court had held nine more Islamic State operatives guilty in a conspiracy case.
The case pertains to larger criminal conspiracy hatched by the ISIS to establish its base in India by recruiting Muslim youth for ISIS, a proscribed terrorist organisation, through different social media platforms.
