Pramesh Jain
The National Investigation Agency on Wednesday arrested four people as it conducted simultaneous searches in Jammu and Kashmir and Karnataka in connection with terror activities of a group propagating the violent ideology of the ISIS, an official said.
An NIA spokesperson said the searches were carried out along with local police units at five locations three in Kashmir and one each in Bengaluru and Mangalore.
The arrested accused have been identified as Obaid Hamid of Srinagar,Muzammil Hassan Bhat of Bandipora;Ammar Abdul Rahman of Mangalore and Shankar Venkatesh Perumal of Bengaluru, he said.
The case pertains to terrorist activities of a group led by one Mohammed Ameen of Kerala, the official said.
He said three people Ameen and his associates Mushab Anuvar and Rahees Rashid were arrested in March after preliminary examination.
The group has been running various ISIS propaganda channels on different social media platforms such as Telegram,Hoop and Instagram for propagating the violent Jihadi ideology, and radicalising and recruiting new members to the terror module, the NIA official said.
