Pramesh Jain
Kerala ISIS module case: NIA conducts searches at 11 locations in Delhi, Kerala, Karnataka; Three held:
In a major action against the Islamic State (IS) modules,the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday conducted searches at 11 locations across the country.The multiple agency sleuths carried out searches across Delhi, Karnataka and Kerala.
The National Investigation Agency officials along with local police conducted simultaneous searches at 11 locations including eight locations in Kerala spread over Districts of Kannur, Mallapuram,Kollam and Kasargod,two locations in Bengaluru and one location in Delhi in a case pertaining to terrorist activities of a group led by one Mohammed Ameen alias Abu Yahya from Kerala for his ISIS link and arrested three persons part of the ring.
The accused has been identified as,Mohd. Ameen alias Abu Yahaya,Mushab Anuvar and Dr. Rahees Rashid have been arrested on Monday .
During investigation it was found that,Mohd Ameen was leading the module and the other two arrested accused were his close associates.
According to the NIA officials,this group 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 to this ISIS module.
NIA had registered the case against 07 known and other unknown accused persons under sections,120B,121 and 121A of IPC §ions 17, 18,18B,20,38&40 of Unlawful Activities (prevention)Act on March 5th this year.
Probe revealed that the group of radicalized individuals under the leadership of Mohammed Ameen owning allegiance to proscribed terrorist organization ISIS had identified certain individuals in Kerala and Karnataka for targeted killing.
They had also planned to undertake Hijrat (religious migration),to Jammu and Kashmir for engaging in terrorist acts.
Further,Mohammed Ameen had travelled to Jammu&Kashmir immediately after his return to India from Bahrain in March,2020 and had been camping in Delhi for last two months for establishing connection with Jammu Kashmir based operatives having allegiance to ISIS.
The officials carried search operations at the premises of accused Mohammed Ameen and his associates who were members of the various groups and channels on encrypted chat platforms.
During the searches,several digital devices including Laptops,Mobiles,Hard Disk Drives,Pen Drives,multiple SIM cards of different service providers and incriminating documents have been seized.
Seized exhibits are being scrutinized and will be sent for forensic examination.Searches today were preceded by extensive verification jointly by NIA,Special Cell,Delhi Police and ATS,Kerala Police.
Further, investigation in the case continue,the official release said.
