Six accused planned to recruit ‘gullible Muslim youths’, says NIA chargesheet
The 4000-page chargesheet, which was filed in the court of Special NIA Judge A K Lahoti, has 16 protected witnesses.
MUMBAI: The six people arrested in the ISIS module case were actively supporting the proscribed terrorist organization and were propagating its ideology among “gullible Muslim youths”, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said in its chargesheet filed recently before a court here.
The accused planned to commit terror acts in India, said the National Investigation Agency’s chargesheet, which was filed on Thursday against six people held in July 2023 during multiple raids in Maharashtra in the ISIS module case.
They have been identified as Tabish Siddiqui, Zulfikar Ali, Sharjeel Shaikh and Aakif Ateeque Nachan, Zubair Shaikh and Adnanali Sarkar.
The 4000-page chargesheet, which was filed in the court of Special NIA Judge A K Lahoti, has 16 protected witnesses.
It was revealed during the investigation that the accused planned to commit terror acts to show support to ISIS in India and meetings were held in Borivali (in Thane district).
It is evident from the statement of the witness that the accused had several meetings in Chhoti Masjid, Padgha-Borivali, wherein they used to plan the recruitment of gullible Muslim youth for Islamic State (ISIS), furthering the activities of Islamic State, propagating the ideology of Daesh ie. ISIS and to carry out violent jihad, the chargesheet said.
As per the chargesheet, it is a terror module with international linkages, whereby the accused have undergone radicalization towards the concept of violent jihad and are willing to undertake ‘Hijrat’ (migration to the land of jihad) to participate in the terror activities of ISIS.
They are all members of the proscribed ISIS outfit and had hatched a conspiracy to further the terrorist activities of the organisation, to strike fear and terror among the people and threaten the security of India, its secular ethos and culture as well the democratic system of governance.
Further, the accused were sharing DIY (Do It Yourself) kits with their contacts and were found to be raising funds to finance their terror plans and designs, the chargesheet said.
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