On Wednesday NIA arrested five Hyderabad residents identified as Ibrahim Yazdani (30), Iliyas Yazdani (24), Habeeb Mohammed (32), Mohammed Irfan (27) and Abdullah Bin Ahmed Al Amoodi (31).
The counsel for four of the Hyderabad youth arrested for their alleged links to Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, today in a local court in Nampally, appealed to the bench to direct National Investigation Agency (NIA) not to use "third degree methods" while questioning the accused men. The NIA on Wednesday had arrested five youth and detained six others in pursuit of busting an alleged module of the dreaded outfit. While the six detained men have been questioned multiple times since Wednesday, five arrested accused were today sent to 12-day police custody.
"In today's hearing wherein NIA had moved court to ask for my clients custody, we requested the honorable judge for three things. First being that my clients undergo proper medical check-up, second, they have access to their lawyer and lastly NIA investigators should not used third degree methods to question any of the accused men," said MA Azeem, counsel for accused men.
On Wednesday NIA arrested five Hyderabad residents identified as Ibrahim Yazdani (30), Iliyas Yazdani (24), Habeeb Mohammed (32), Mohammed Irfan (27) and Abdullah Bin Ahmed Al Amoodi (31). Hyderabad based Azeem, who represents four of the accused, including Yazdani brothers, told dna that his appeal to the court was based on 'past experiences'. "Our contention is that all legal procedures be followed to investigate the persons involved in the case and let court decide whether my clients whom the NIA accuses of various charges are innocent or guilty," Azeem told dna over the phone. "The honourable judge took notice of our request and directed the NIA to do the same," Azeem added.
Agency officials have accused the youth of entering into a "criminal conspiracy to wage war against the Government of India by collecting weapons and explosive materials to commit terrorist acts by targeting public places in various parts of the country". NIA told dna that atleast one of the accused men was in touch with a Syria-based handler who is suspected to be Shafi Armar alias Yosuf-al-Hindi, who has been absconding after allegedly committing terror acts in India.
Armar an Islamic State (IS) recruiter, hailing from Bhatkal, Karnataka. Armar started his career with Indian Mujahiddeen, when he was recruited along with his brother Sultan Armar by Riyaz Bhatkal in 2008. In April, however, there were unconfirmed reports that Armar was killed in a US drone strike but agency officials now believe that the latest alleged module might have been in touch with Armar. In a major country-wide crackdown on alleged IS sympathisers, NIA had arrested over two dozen individuals in January this year.
According to sources in the agency, a youtube link on how to make an improvised explosive devices was sent from an IP address in Syria to an email used by one of the accused. NIA officials had claimed to have recovered Chemicals suspected to be urea and ammonium nitrate powder and bottles containing mineral acid, acetone, hydrogen peroxide, which are all substances used for making improvised explosives.
Among the electronic gadgets recovered were six laptops, about 40 mobile phones, 32 SIM cards, a large number of hard disks, memory cards, pen drives, and digital tabs.
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