The Nationwide Investigation Company filed a chargesheet on Friday naming six folks for his or her alleged involvement within the radicalisation of youth in Tamil Nadu for the terrorist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT). The group was working to ascertain the Islamic Caliphate in India. This comes three days after an NIA courtroom convicted a Bangladeshi nationwide HuT cadre to five years of rigorous imprisonment in a terror case. As per the chargesheet, the NIA investigation revealed that the six accused had been key members of HuT, and so they had been tasked with organising recruitment drive conferences with spiritual heads/ulemas/imams.
Based on the NIA’s official assertion issued on Friday, these named within the chargesheet as key conspirators are Dr Hameed Hussain, Ahmad Mansoor, Abdur Rahman, Mohamed Maurice, Khader Nawaz Sherif and Ahmed Ali. The conspiracy includes the recruitment of Muslim youth and different actions by HuT to propagate its violent jihadi ideology, geared toward establishing an Islamic Caliphate in India and implementing the draft Islamic structure devised by HuT founder Sheikh Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, the assertion stated.
All of the accused had been in touch with their Pakistan-based HuT counterparts, and propagated their newsletters/articles concerning the violent secession of Kashmir with army help (Nusra) from Pakistan, the NIA stated in its assertion. It additional added that they had been offered incendiary articles revealed by the Central Media Workplace (CMO) of HuT to disseminate.
As a part of the conspiracy, the accused deliberately unfold false anti-national content material and labored to incite discord between teams, aiming to disrupt India’s nationwide integration, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, the investigative company acknowledged. They had been additionally actively engaged in preparations for executing terror acts.
The case was initially registered by the Tamil Nadu Police and later transferred to the NIA in Chennai. (With company inputs)
