The prosecution also charged him with the offense of influencing others to join the ISIS ideology and spread terror
The prosecution on Thursday filed draft charges against Anees Ansari who, according to Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS), is an Islamic State sympathiser allegedly trying to attack US establishments in the country, including a school in Bandra. The prosecution also charged him with the offense of influencing others to join the ISIS ideology and spread terror.
The draft charges read, "Between August 2, 2011 to October 18, 2014, Anees had created a fake account on a social networking site and initiated chatting with people. He had downloaded incriminating data by misusing the computer devices and internet connection of his office dishonestly and fraudulently without taking appropriate permission from the officer in charge of the office premises."
It is further mentioned that between October 13 and October 18,2014, Anees was allegedly in constant contact with a man named Omar Elhaj. "Anees sent offensive messages and ideologies of ISIS. Further, the accused also allegedly conspired to spread terror activities and induced others to join him in spreading the terror activities propagated by the ISIS with the intent of threatening the unity, integrity, security and sovereignty of India, or to strike terror in the people or any section of the people," the draft charges states.
The charges also stated that Anees had allegedly induced Elhaj to hatch a conspiracy to bomb the American school in BKC, which would lead to the death of children and foreign nationals, thereby spreading a wave of terror.
The prosecution would argue on the draft charges on August 1, 2017. Ansari, a Kurla resident, was arrested by the state ATS in October, 2015.
Anees Ansari, 26, a resident of Kader building in Kurla (W), used to work in a multi-national company in SEEPZ, Andheri (East). His job involved designing navigation maps for imported cars. He studied IT in a suburban college and used to draw Rs 19,500 monthly. His father is retired and his mother a homemaker. He is the eldest among four siblings.
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