Charge sheeted by NIA
Were in touch with Pak-based HuT
Sanjeev Pargal
JAMMU, Nov 15: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today charge sheeted six persons involved in radicalization of youth in Tamil Nadu who were also in contact with their Pakistan-based Hizb-ut-Tahir (HuT) counterparts, and propagated their newsletters/ articles regarding the violent secession of Kashmir with military assistance (Nusra) from Pakistan.
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An NIA statement issued said the persons who were charge sheeted today had been provided incendiary articles published by the Central Media Office (CMO) of HuT for dissemination.
“As part of the conspiracy, the accused knowingly and deliberately disseminated false anti-national content and engaged in fostering disharmony between groups with the explicit objective of disturbing the national integration, sovereignty and territorial integrity of India,” the statement read.
The NIA identified the key conspirators as Dr Hameed Hussain, Ahmad Mansoor, Abdur Rahman, Mohamed Maurice, Khader Nawaz Sherif and Ahmed Ali, all residents of Tamil Nadu.
The NIA investigation revealed that the accused were key members of HuT, and they were tasked with organising recruitment drive meetings with religious heads/ ulemas/ imams.
They were also actively involved in various acts preparatory to the commission of terror acts.
The NIA said the people were allegedly involved in the radicalisation of youths in Tamil Nadu for terrorist organisation Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) to establish the Islamic Caliphate in India.
The conspiracy relates to the recruitment of Muslim youth and other activities by HuT to promote its violent jihadi ideology to establish the Islamic Caliphate in India, and to enforce the draft Islamic constitution of HuT founder Sheikh Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, the NIA statement said.
The case was originally registered by Tamil Nadu Police and subsequently taken over by NIA in Chennai.
In another case, a Bangladeshi national was today sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment by the NIA special court in Kolkata in a terror conspiracy case.
The court found Rabiul Islam, a member of the proscribed terrorist organisation, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), guilty, it said.
The accused was also fined Rs 20,000 in the case, which has been under investigation by NIA since August 2021 after it took it over from West Bengal Police. Rabiul was among the five accused charge sheeted in the case by NIA, which found him actively involved in the JMB conspiracy to commit terror acts as part of the organisation’s anti-India agenda, another statement by the agency said.
NIA investigations revealed that Rabiul infiltrated India and hatched a conspiracy to wage war against the country by recruiting and motivating Muslim youth, it added.
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