The accused, identified as Amjad Khan, who operated online using multiple aliases, is an alleged ISIS sympathiser and recruiter
A 37-year-old man suspected to be associated with the banned terror outfit ISIS was arrested from the national capital after he was deported from Saudi Arabia, said the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday.
The accused, identified as Amjad Khan, who operated online using multiple aliases, is an alleged ISIS sympathiser and recruiter and was arrested on Wednesday after his deportation on April 4. "He was deported from Saudi Arabia, in connection with its probe into activities of the West Asia-based terror group and its affiliates in the country," the agency said.
Khan, a resident of Rajasthan, had emerged as a major suspect in a case against unknown and unidentified persons involved in ISIS-related activities in countries at peace with India.
NIA had filed a chargesheet and a supplementary chargesheet last year in the case but the probe is still on. "The name of a Rajasthan resident Ayan Khan Salafi alias Muhammadi Ayan alias Al Wala Wal Bara (online identities) had surfaced as a major suspect in the case," it said.
The agency claimed that he was working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since 2014.
"On preliminary questioning, it was ascertained that Ayan Khan Salafi's actual name is Amjad Khan, a 37-year-old resident of Churu district in Rajasthan," the agency said.
After further probe, it was found that Khan was one of the principal characters in the conspiracy hatched by the absconding accused, Yusuf-al-Hindi (alias Shafi Armar who has already been chargesheeted) of the newly-formed organisation Junood-ul-Khilafa-Fil-Hind (JKH). The JKH group had allegedly pledged their allegiance to the proscribed terrorist group ISIS for carrying out subversive activities in India.
Khan had allegedly played a key role in motivating and linking members of the newly-formed JKH.
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