Updated Jan 23, 2021 | 16:12 IST
The investigation in the case has established that the charge-sheeted accused persons were radicalised by violent jihadi ideology. Representational Image | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: The NIA on Saturday filed a chargesheet against ten terrorists belonging to a radical group ‘shahadat is our goal’.
The investigation in the case has established that the charge-sheeted accused persons were radicalised by violent jihadi ideology.
The probe agency said that the prime accused Sheik Dawood and Mohamed Rifas had conspired with co-accused and organised meetings at various places in Tamil Nadu, since Ramadan, 2017, with the intention of radicalising and recruiting the co-accused and others for shahadat (getting themselves killed) to establish Islamic rule in India.
NIA files chargesheet against 10 terrorists of Jihadi gang Shahadat is our Goal ANI | Updated: Jan 23, 2021 19:51 IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], January 23 (ANI): The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday filed a chargesheet against ten terrorists of a jihadi gang Shahadat is our Goal in a Chennai Court. The probe establishes that accused were radicalised by violent Jihadi ideology. Prime accused Sheik Dawood and Mohamed Rifas had attempted to carry out terror acts by procuring illegal firearms, NIA officials said.
Apart from Dawood and Rifas, NIA has charge-sheeted Muparish Ahamed, Abubakar Siddiq, Hameed Asfar, Ahamed Imithiyas, Mohamed Rashid, Liyakath Ali, Sajith Ahamed and Rizwan Mohammed. They have been booked under sections 120B, 153A, 121A and 122 of IPC, sections 13 and 18 of UA (P) Act and section 25(1)(a) of Arms Act.
Updated Jan 21, 2021 | 23:16 IST
Searches were conducted by the NIA at the premises of the accused in May 2019 and Rashid was identified as an active member of the terrorist gang, the official said. Representational image | Photo Credit: PTI
Chennai: The NIA on Thursday arrested an active member of a jihadi gang, Shahadat is our Goal , from Tamil Nadu for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy of waging a violent jihad in the southern state as part of efforts to establish Shariah, an official said.
Mohammed Rashid, 25, from Tamil Nadu s Cuddalore district, was arrested and produced before a special NIA court in Chennai, which sent him to judicial custody, the official said.