NIA arrests two Hyderabadi youths for ISIS links
Hyderabad, Aug 12 : The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested two youths here for alleged links with the international terror outfit ISIS.
Mohammed Abdullah Basith, 24, and Mohammed Abdul Qhadeer, 19, were arrested after searches by NIA at seven places in the city on August 6.
According to NIA, the initial questioning brought out the involvement of Basith, Qhadeer and others pledging their allegiance to the proscribed terrorist organization ISIS to carry out terror activities in India.
The agency arrested the two to ascertain the details of the ongoing conspiracy and also their role played in furthering the ISIS ideology to carry out terrorist acts in India. The accused are residents of Hafiz Baba Nagar and Chandrayangutta areas of the old city.
The arrests were made as part of the investigation into an earlier case registered in New Delhi in 2016 against Sheikh Azhar ul Islam, Mohammed Farhan Shaikh and Adnan Hassan for the allegations that they and their other unknown associates were members of ISIS.
They were allegedly involved in a conspiracy to identify, motivate, radicalize, recruit and train Indian Muslim youths on behalf of ISIS to carry out terror activities, NIA said in a press release.
All the three accused were subsequently arrested by NIA. A special court later sentenced Azhar ul Islam and Farhan Shaikh to seven years of imprisonment, while trial against accused Adnan Hassan was still going on. Further investigation continued against other accused.
"During further investigation, a fresh input was received from reliable sources that one Abdullah Basith resident of Hyderabad, who was connected with accused Adnan Hassan and some of his associates, are in regular touch with each other and conspiring to further the activities of ISIS," NIA said
During the searches in Hyderabad, a lot of incriminating material was recovered and seized. The same has been sent to CFSL Hyderabad for analysis and data extraction, the agency added.
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Manipur: Mortal remains of children killed in bomb attack handed over to family
Imphal (PTI): The mortal remains of two children, who were killed in a bomb attack in Manipur's Bishnupur district in April, were handed over to family members on Saturday, officials said.
The bodies of the five-year-old boy and his six-month-old sister were kept in the morgue for 25 days, as the family members had refused to accept the mortal remains, demanding that the perpetrators be brought to book at the earliest.
On April 25, Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh had appealed to the family members of the children to accept the bodies. Singh had also said that all efforts were underway to find the culprits.
The two children were killed in a bomb attack at Tronglaobi in Bishnupur district on April 7. Their bodies were kept in the morgue at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal.
The incident had triggered widespread violent protests in the five valley districts of Manipur, and the case was subsequently handed over to the NIA.
Hundreds of people lined up along the way to Tronglaobi to offer floral tributes, as the mortal remains were taken for the last rites in an open vehicle earlier in the day.
