According to senior officials of the NIA, preliminary examination and surveillance of the arrested youth did not suggest any connection between them and the missing 21 residents of Kerala.
An engineering aspirant, an accountant, a designer with a daily newspaper and a hospitality personnel are among those arrested on terror charges from Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Preliminary probe of the six youth arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on charges of plotting terror attacks have led the probe agency to some new aspects of the modus operandi followed by individuals aspiring to be a part of the dreaded Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) outfit.
According to officials, the youth, who come from a financially secured and educated background, were allegedly part of a fresh "ISIS inspired" module. These newly recruited people were motivated to be part of the terror outfit without guidance from a handler or mentor as was seen the case in over 40 youth, that have been arrested by the NIA this year.
The revelation about the fresh ISIS inspired module further removes initial speculations that the latest batch of arrested youth might be connected to the missing residents of Kerala believed to be in Afghanistan.
According to senior officials of the NIA, preliminary examination and surveillance of the arrested youth did not suggest any connection between them and the missing 21 residents of Kerala.
Official sources on Monday gave dna a brief profile of the accused men. The accused have been identified as Manseed (30), Abu Basheer (29), Swalih Mohamad (26), Safwan (30), Jasim (25) and Ramshad Nageelan Kandiyil (24). Sources said that among the arrested youth, 25-year-old Jasim was pursuing a course in Associate Member of Institution of Engineers. Swalih Mohamad, who has been given the alias of Abu Hasna, worked in Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd and Safwan works as a designer in a Kerala based newspaper.
Officials added that while Manseed alias Omar al Hindi worked in Qatar, Abu Basheer alias Rasheed was a mechanic in Coimbatore. Agencies believe that Rashed might have been chosen as the Ameer or leader of the module. Ramshad, the youngest in the group, was working as an accountant in a shop and helped out with the accounts of a local mosque, dna has learnt. Jasim and Ramshad, according to a senior NIA official, are cousins as well.
“Credible information was received that some youth from Kerala and Tamil Nadu along with their accomplices have entered into a criminal conspiracy to commit terrorist acts by collecting explosives and other offensive material for targeting important persons and places of public importance in various parts of south lndia,” NIA spokesperson Alok Mittal had said on Sunday adding that the information was passed on to the Central government which directed the agency to investigate the case.
“Acting on the information, the NIA teams along with Kerala Police, Delhi Police and Telangana Police, launched surveillance on the movements of the accused involved in the conspiracy. During searches conducted on Sunday in the districts of Kozikhode and Kannur in Kerala, six persons, have been arrested for their involvement in the conspiracy. Five of them were arrested while they were conducting a meeting at Kanakamala hilltop, Kannur district, Kerala. During subsequent searches, another person was detained from Kuttiyadi in Kozhikode district and arrested later on,” said NIA officials.
While Abu Basheer hails from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, the rest of the youth belong to Kozhikode, Kannur, Mallapuram and Thrissur in Kerala. According to the NIA the accused were allegedly collecting explosives to target important persons and places of public importance.
No connection with 21 missing residents
According to senior officials of the NIA, preliminary examination and surveillance of the arrested youth did not suggest any connection between them and the missing 21 residents of Kerala.
Official sources on Monday gave dna a brief profile of the accused men. The accused have been identified as Manseed (30), Abu Basheer (29), Swalih Mohamad (26), Safwan (30), Jasim(25) and Ramshad Nageelan Kandiyil (24). Sources said that among the arrested youth, 25-year-old Jasim was pursuing a course in Associate Member of Institution of Engineers. Swalih Mohamad, who has been given the alias of Abu Hasna, worked in Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd and Safwan works as a designer in a Kerala based newspaper.
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