A special court on Thursday sent six suspected ISIS operatives to judicial custody till June 10 after they were presented before the court on expiry of three-day National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody. The probe agency submitted that their custody is required for further interrogation.
During an in-camera proceeding, District Judge Amarnath sent accused Mohd Azeemusan, Mohd Osama, Akhlaq ur-Rehman, Meeraj and Mohsin Ibrahim Sayyed to judicial custody till June 10 after they were presented before the court on expiry of three-day NIA custody.
The sixth accused, Mohd Mustaq Seikh, was sent to judicial custody till May 19 when his 90-day custody period, since his arrest, will expire.
All of them were arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police in the case for allegedly having links with ISIS. The Home Ministry had later transferred the case to the NIA. The NIA had taken custody of the accused, who were in judicial custody earlier, on the ground that the probe in the matter was at a crucial stage and they were needed to be confronted with other accused arrested in connection with another terror case.
The NIA had told the court that their custody was required in order to unearth larger conspiracy of ISIS.