NIA files charge sheet against 16 alleged ISIS operatives

According to the sources, the agency filed the charge sheet before District Judge Amar Nath in which it has outlined the role of all the accused in a larger conspiracy of ISIS to further its ideology.

The agency claimed that members of banned terror group -- 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, the source said.

The final report also alleged that some Indian youths were transferred by the accused to countries like Syria, Lybia and Iraq for terror acts. It also claimed that the accused, who are currently in judicial custody, were using different internet channels/ services, telephone and one-on-one meetings to further outfit’s ideology.

The accused persons against whom the agency filed the charge sheet include Mohd Aleem, Mohd Obaidullah Khan, Nafees Khan, Mohd Shareef Moinuddin Khan, Asif Ali, Najmul Huda, Mudabbir Mushtaq Shaikh, Mohd Abdul Ahad, Suhail Ahmed, Syed Mujahid, Mohd Hussain Khan, Mohd Afzal, Imran and Abu Anas.