ISIS suspect arrested by Delhi Police, was planning to go to Syria

The Delhi Police’s Special Cell has arrested an ISIS suspect from the Indira Gandhi International airport.

The suspect has been identified as Shahjahan Velluva Kandy and is a resident of Kerala’s Kannur.

Kandy was deported by the Turkish police for holding a fake passport. He was arrested after the Indian intelligence agencies received an input from CIA on June 30. 

“A case of cheating, forgery, impersonation and under sections of the passport act has been registered against him," an officer told Hindustan Times.

The officers will interrogate him to investigate how he got a forged passport and the data from his phone has been sent for verification.

According to CNN-News18, investigations have revealed that this was Kandy’s second attempt to go to Turkey.

The report said that the Special Cell also found hundreds of telegram IDs of ISIS sympathisers on Kandy’s mobile phone.

The alleged Islamic State suspect was planning to sneak into Syria from Turkey and join the dreaded terrorist outfit.

Last month, a 22 year-old was arrested by the Hyderabad Police on the suspect of being an ISIS sympathiser and attempting to carry out subversive activities in the country.