India has sought Chinese help to unravel the conspiracy of ISIS to spread its tentacles in the sub-continent and asked for details of the ‘chat conversation’ an alleged Islamic State recruit from Maharashtra had with his handlers in Syria and Iraq.
The NIA has sent letters Rogatory to China requesting for the chat details of Areeb Majeed, arrested by the anti-terror agency in December 2014, with his handlers, official sources said on Monday.
Once the authorities in Beijing send in the details including location of his handlers in Syria and Iraq, the NIA will file a supplementary chargesheet in the ‘open case’ it has registered against the terror group which controls vast swathes of land and population in the two countries and declared a Caliphate, the sources said.
Majeed used ‘WeChat’ messaging service for allegedly chatting with his handlers and the server was located in China.
The 24-year-old man from Kalyan landed in Mumbai on November 28, 2014 after spending nearly six months in Iraq, following which he was detained by the security agencies and later arrested.