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Arrested ISIS 'recruit' Arif Majeed sent to NIA custody till December 8

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A special NIA court on Saturday remanded alleged ISIS 'recruit' Arif Majeed in the probe agency's custody till December 8, observing that his custodial interrogation was necessary.

The NIA told the court that they want to unearth the entire conspiracy from Majeed's 'recruitment' to the role played by him in the 'war' (for an Islamic state).

The agency also told special NIA judge P R Deshmukh that three other youths, who had joined the UN banned terror outfit, along with Majeed are shown as wanted in the case.

"We also want to investigate the kind of training that Majeed was imparted before joining the ISIS forces," NIA's prosecutor told the court.

In the court, when asked by the judge, Majeed told his name and replied in the negative when asked whether he had any complainants against the NIA.

Twenty-three-year-old Arif Majeed from neighbouring Kalyan, who was believed to have been killed while fighting for ISIS in Syria, had returned to Mumbai on 28 November and was interrogated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) here.

In May this year, four youths from Kalyan town -- Arif Majeed, Shaheen Tanki, Fahad Shaikh and Aman Tandel -- had left India to visit holy places in the Middle East, but disappeared thereafter. They were suspected to have joined the middle-east terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

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