IS man recruited, sent Indians to Syria, Iraq: NIA to court

The national Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge-sheet in a case pertaining to banned terror outfit ISIS, outlining the modus operandi of a 23-year-old alleged operative in identifying, radicalising, recruiting and sending Indians to join the terrorists in Syria and Iraq.

The probe report, filed before District Judge Amar Nath, refers in detail to the role of accused Naser Packeer, who was working as a web and graphics designer in Dubai. The agency, which has arrayed over 22 persons as witnesses, has also made his father Packeer Mohammad a prosecution witness.

“In furtherance to its larger conspiracy under its leadership, members of terror groups Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL)..., in connivance with a few resident and non-resident Indians have been indulging in identification, radicalization, recruitment, training and finally transfer of Indian youths to countries like Syria, Lybia, Iraq for terror acts,” the charge-sheet stated. It further read: “For that purpose, members of the above terror groups have been using different channels/services available on the Internet, telephone and one-on-one meeting.”

The sources said the charge-sheet, filed in court during an in-chamber proceeding, alleged that Naser, who hails from Tamil Nadu and was arrested in December last, was involved in a conspiracy to recruit Muslim youths in India to join ISIS and shift them to Iraq and Syria to carry out terror attacks and wage war in India.

The charge-sheet further said that the accused, who did B.Tech from a Chennai college before leaving for Dubai in 2014, used several websites, including Twitter, WhatsApp and YouTube to spread the base of the terror outfit in India and the world.

It added that the assistance of the USA through Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty and Internet giants such as Google and Twitter was sought in the investigation against the accused.