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Areeb Majeed is lying about not having fought for Islamic State, say cops

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Cops who interrogated Areeb Majeed claim that Majeed still supports the Islamic State (IS) and has no complaints against them. The agency also suspect Majeed to have participated in actual fighting (for IS). They believe he's misleading the interrogators claiming that his duties were restricted to cleaning and construction work.

Majeed and his three Kalyan-based friends had received 15-day arms training in Rakka.

"Majeed told us he had felt very low after being shot at and expected help from IS members, and that at that point he missed his parents much. He then decided to flee the place and return to India. He, however, has no complaints against IS, and still backs their ideology as well as his decision of join them. It looks like his claim that he had not fought for IS is untrue. We are grilling him further to clarify this aspect," said an officer in the security establishment.

According to officers who interrogated Majeed, he had turned 'religious' three years ago, following which he started visiting religious websites and interacting with like-minded youths. He also visited the Islamic Guidance Centre in Kalyan.

"We asked Majeed whether there were other Indians in the IS camp. He said he had spotted lots of people of Asian origin. He also said he had last met the other Kalyan youths—Shaheem Tanki, Fahad Shaikh and Aman Tandel—days before he left Iraq. Majeed also said IS had provided them phones with internet services and the four of them stayed connected through social media. They also received 15-day arms training in Rakka," the officer said.

Majeed was arrested on Friday last after he returned to Mumbai after nearly six months in Iraq.

In May, Majeed, Tanki, Shaikh and Tandel, had left India to visit holy places in the Middle East, but disappeared thereafter. They were suspected to have joined the terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

According to the police, the four engineering students flew to Baghdad on May 25 as part of a group of pilgrims to visit religious shrines in Iraq. The next day, Majeed called his family from Baghdad and apologised for having left without informing them.

On August 26, Tanki called up Majeed's family and told them their son had become a "martyr", dying fighting for IS in Syria. The next day, Majeed's family performed 'Janaza-e-gayabana' (prayers for departed soul in absence of the body) in Kalyan.

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