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Nia: NIA raids house of suspected Islamic State operative in Srinagar | India News



NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday raided the house of a Kashmiri alleged to have participated in a conspiracy hatched in Srinagar in 2020 to facilitate plans by radicalised men and women from Kerala, to travel to an Islamic State-controlled territory.
Uzair Azhar Bhat, whose house in Karfali Mohalla in Srinagar was raided, was a common contact between Deepthi Marla, a converted Muslim woman from Kerala, and Obaid Hamit Matta, both suspects in ISIS Kerala module case being probed by NIA since 2021. Marla had got in touch with prime accused Mohammad Ameen alias Abu Yahya, a resident of Kadannamanna in Kerala’s Malappuram district, after her failed bid to travel to IS-administered Khorasan via Teheran, Iran in 2019.
Ameen and other suspects including Madesh Shankar had made plans to undertake hijrah (holy journey) to ISIS administered territory. In January 2020, Deepthi went to Srinagar in January 2020 to meet Obaid to plan the hijrah and stayed in Srinagar for one week.
In 2021, NIA had started investigating Ameen who was allegedly running various ISIS propaganda channels on social media platforms such as Telegram, Hoop and Instagram. Through these channels, he was propagating violent jihadi ideologies of ISIS and was radicalising and recruiting new members for the ISIS module. Ameen and his associates had even identified certain individuals for targeted killings. They had made plans to undertake hijrah to J&K for engaging in terrorist acts and had raised funds from various sources for this trip.
During the probe, it was found that Ameen was in touch with Deepthi, who was married to Anas Abdul Rahiman of Mangalore. In 2015, she went to Dubai to pursue studies where she met Mizha Siddeeque, another woman. Both Deepthi and Mizha developed an inclination towards ISIS. In 2019, they tried to do hijrah to Khorasan and reached Tehran, Iran. However, after reaching Tehran, their contact with ISIS operatives based in Khorasan could not be established.
They both returned to India, and Deepthi got in touch with Ameen, Obaid Hamid Matta, Madesh Shankar @ Abdullah and others and made plans to undertake hijrah to ISIS administered territory.
NIA on Monday said that digital devices seized during Monda’s raid are being examined.


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