Updated: October 8, 2020 6:27:21 pm
Ahamed Abdul Cader and Irfan Nasir. (Credit: NIA)
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two men from Tamil Nadu and Karnataka for allegedly recruiting for the Islamic State (IS) and financing the recruits’ travel to Syria.
Ahamed Abdul Cader, 40, of Ramanathpuram in Tamil Nadu and Irfan Nasir, 33, of Frazer City in Bengaluru were arrested by the agency on Wednesday after their names came up during investigations of Islamic State-related cases. . NIA sources said that while Cader is a business analyst at a bank in Chennai, Irfan Nasir is a Bengaluru-based rice trader.
The NIA, which registered a case in the matter on September 19, has called it the “Bengaluru-ISIS module.”
The NIA said it arrested the two “for being affiliated with the banned terrorist organization ISIS / ISIL / Daesh and for participating in a conspiracy to radicalize and motivate Muslim youth in Bangalore to join ISIS, and for raising funds to facilitate their trip to Syria “. .
The agency has claimed that the duo’s names emerged during its investigation into the March 2020 arrest of Kashmir residents Hina Bashir Beg (39) and her husband Jahanzaib Sami (36) of Jamia Nagar in Delhi. The two had been arrested by the Delhi police on suspicion of being associated with the Islamic State and organizing protests against the CAA in Delhi. Later, the NIA had taken custody of him in connection with its investigation into an Islamic State terror conspiracy involving the young man from Hyderabad Abdullah Basith.
The NIA has claimed that during this investigation, a Dr. Abdur Rahman aka Dr. Brave from Bengaluru, was arrested. Rahman, a city-based ophthalmologist, was arrested as part of an investigation into a March case against the Islamic State’s (ISKP) Khorasan province module, for allegedly working briefly with the Islamic State in Syria in 2014.
“During his review, the names of his associates who had traveled to Syria in 2013-2014 to join ISIS came to light. A further investigation resulted in the breakage of a module in which it was revealed that the defendants Ahamed Abdul Cader, Irfan Nasir and their associates were members of Hizb-ut-Tehrir. They had formed a group called ‘Quran Circle’ which radicalized gullible Muslim youth in Bengaluru and financed their visit to the conflict zone in Syria to aid and assist ISIS terrorists, “the NIA said in a statement.
NIA has claimed that Cader and Nasir organized funds through various sources, including through “donations and own sources” from Rahman’s visit to Syria. Similarly, they funded several other youth. “Two of those young men died in Syria,” the NIA stated.
The investigating agency has registered cases under sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 125 (waging war against any Asian power in alliance with the Government of India) of the Indian Penal Code and sections 17 (fundraising for terrorist acts), 18 (conspiracy) and 18b (recruitment or cause to recruit any person or persons for the commission of a terrorist act) of the Illegal Activities (Prevention) Act.
The agency has searched the residence of the two and claimed to have recovered “incriminating material” and electronic devices. Both defendants were brought before the NIA Special Court, Bengaluru, and were placed in pre-trial detention for 10 days in NIA custody.
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