NIA arrests two suspected ISIS members from Bengaluru
Bengaluru: The National Investigation Agency has arrested two suspected members of the city-based ISIS module, which was allegedly involved in the radicalization of youth and funding their trip to Syria to join the terror outfit.
Ahamed Abdul Cader (40), hailing from Ramanathapuram district in Tamil Nadu, and Irfan Nasir (33) from Frazer town here were arrested by the NIA sleuths on Wednesday.
The NIA action comes weeks after the agency busted the terror module with the arrest of a doctor here.
In continuing with the investigation, the sleuths conducted searches on the premises of Cader and Nasir in Gurappana Palya and Frazer town and recovered incriminating material and electronic devices from their possession.
While Cader is a business analyst in a bank in Chennai, Nasir is a rice merchant here, the NIA said in a statement.
The duo was produced before Special NIA Court here, which granted 10 days of custody to the agency for interrogation.
During the investigation of a case taken up by the NIA on September 19, certain incriminating facts emerged about a Bengaluru-based ISIS module, the agency said.
It got a lead with the arrest of a doctor in Bengaluru.
During his examination, the names of those who had traveled to Syria in 2013-14 to join ISIS surfaced.
"Further investigations resulted in busting of a module wherein it was revealed that Cader, 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 funded their visit to the conflict zone in Syria to aid and assist the ISIS terrorists," the NIA said.
The NIA also stated that they had played a very significant role in the radicalization of the members of the group and arranged funds through donations and own sources for the visit of the doctor and other Muslim youth from Bengaluru to Syria to join ISIS.
"Two such youth got killed in Syria," the NIA claimed.
"Further investigation in the case is continued to unearth the larger conspiracy," the NIA said.
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NEET student hangs self in Rajasthan's Sikar
Jaipur (PTI): A student preparing for the NEET examination allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in a rented room in Rajasthan's Sikar on Friday, police said.
According to the police, the student allegedly hanged himself from a ceiling fan using his sister's scarf while one sister was attending coaching classes and the other was in the bathroom.
He had appeared in the NEET UG exam 2026, which was cancelled due to paper leak, they said.
Udyog Nagar SHO Rajesh Kumar said that the deceased, identified as Pradeep Meghwal, was a resident of Kanika ki Dhani village in Jhunjhunu's Gudha Gaudji area.
He had been living in a rented room in Sikar's Jaldhari Nagar area with his two sisters while preparing for NEET over the last three years.
His elder sister later found him hanging and informed the landlord and police after bringing him down, officials said.
The SHO said the body was kept at SK Hospital mortuary, and a postmortem had not been conducted.
The student's father, Rajesh Kumar Meghwal, told police that Pradeep's NEET examination had gone well and the family was expecting him to score around 650 marks.
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot expressed grief over the incident and linked it to anxiety among students after reports of irregularities and paper leaks in NEET 2026.
Pilot said repeated paper leak incidents and cancellation of examinations were affecting students' mental health and demanded a time-bound investigation and strict action against those responsible.
