"Highly Radicalised" Operative Of ISIS Unit Caught: Anti-Terror Agency
NDTV
According to National Investigation Agency, Basit Kalam Siddiqui (24), a resident of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in a case related to a conspiracy by the proscribed terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
A "highly radicalised" operative of the ISIS 'Voice of Hind' module was arrested as the National Investigation Agency raided two locations in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi on Wednesday, an official said.
Basit Kalam Siddiqui (24), a resident of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested in a case related to a conspiracy by the proscribed terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to radicalise and recruit youngsters to wage violent jihad against the Indian State by carrying out acts of terrorist violence, a spokesperson of the federal agency said.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had registered the case suo motu on June 29 last year under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
"Siddiqui was in active touch with ISIS operational handlers and was indulging in content creation, publication and dissemination of ISIS propaganda through a magazine 'Voice of Khurasan'," the official said.
