A special NIA court on Tuesday remanded Mohsin Ahmad, an alleged active member of Islamist terror group ISIS, to judicial custody for 30 days.
A student of Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia, Ahmad was arrested on August 6 for being an active member of the terror group and for collecting funds from sympathisers in India and overseas. He was produced before the court on Tuesday at the end of his NIA remand following which he was sent to judicial custody. Following his arrest earlier this month, the NIA said that Ahmad, 22, was sending the collected funds to Syria and other places via cryptocurrency. Originally hailing from Patna, Ahmad was living in the Batla House area of the national capital and was a second-year student of electrical engineering at Jamia.
The "radicalised" individual Mohsin Ahmad, hailing from Patna, was collecting funds for the global terror group and was arrested during searches here in connection with the ISIS module case, the NIA had said after his arrest.
His arrest followed after the NIA searched his residential premises here. Before his arrest, he was residing at F- 18/27, Japani Gali, Jogabai Extension, Batla house, New Delhi and is a permanent resident of New colony, ITI women, Digha, Dinapur cum Khagaul, Patna, Bihar.
He was arrested in the case relating to online and on ground activities of ISIS.The case was registered suo-moto by the NIA on June 25. “Accused Mohsin Ahmad is a radicalised and active member of ISIS. He has been arrested for his involvement in collection of funds for ISIS from sympathisers in India as well as abroad. He was sending these funds to Syria and other places in the form of cryptocurrency in order to further the activities of ISIS. Further investigations in the case are in progress,” the NIA had said.
On July 31, the NIA had carried out searches at 13 premises of suspected persons across six states -- Bhopal and Raisen in Madhya Pradesh, Bharuch, Surat, Navsari and Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Arariya in Bihar, Bhatkal and Tumkur City in Karnataka, Kolhapur and Nanded in Maharashtra and Deoband in Uttar Pradesh.