The NIA on Tuesday filed a chargesheet before the Special NIA Court here under various Sections of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against Abdur Rahman alias Dr Brave (28) of Bengaluru, Karnataka in connection with an Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) case. Rahman is a qualified doctor and the first such professional to be charged in a terror case.
The accused doctor has been chargesheeted for allegedly furthering ideology and activities of proscribed terrorist organisation ISIS/ISKP in connivance with co-accused Jahanzaib Sami and others for committing subversive/anti national activities in India.
Abdur Rahman alias Dr Brave was arrested on August 17, 2020 from Bangalore by NIA.
As a student of MBBS at Bangalore Medical College, Abdur Rahman got radicalised, listening to the online lectures of hard line Islamic preachers including ‘Anwar Awlaki’. Subsequently, he came into contact with other radicalised youth and travelled to Syria in December, 2013 and participated in various terrorist activities of ISIS. After his return to India he continued to remain associated with the ideology of ISIS, the NIA said in a statement.
“Utilising his knowledge of Ophthalmic Lasers and Medical Science, he made efforts to develop applications for medical and military requirements of ISIS. To this end, he was in regular communication with ISIS terrorists located abroad as well as in India including Jahanzaib Sami on Threema, a secure messaging platform,” it said.
Consequently, he had achieved significant progress towards developing a medical application for treatment of ISIS terrorists and also a Laser Guided Anti-Tank Missile application for controlling the trajectory of the missiles for enhancing their effectiveness for furthering the cause of ISIS, it said, adding further investigation in the case is continuing.
Earlier, a charge-sheet was filed on September 2 last year against five accused persons--- Jahanzaib Sami and Hina Bashir Beigh, resident of Srinagar, Abdullah Basith of Hyderabad, Sadiya Anwar Shaikh and Nabeel Siddick Khatri, both of Pune, under IPC sections Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
This case arose out of Delhi Police Special Cell, FIR number 85/2020 dated March 8, 2020 pertaining to arrest of Jahanzaib Sami Wani and his wife Hina Bashir Beigh from Okhla Vihar, Jamia Nagar here on March 8, 2020 on receiving an input that they were affiliated to the banned terrorist organization ISKP, a part of ISIS, and were planning subversive/anti-national activities in India. The NIA had re-registered the case on March 20 last year and took up the investigation of the case.