The NIA has arrested an ISIS sympathiser, who was recently deported from Saudi Arabia, in connection with its probe into activities of the West Asia-based terror group and its affiliates in the country.
In a statement, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) today said Amzad Khan who operated online with a number of aliases was arrested on Wednesday after his deportation on April 4.
37-year-old Khan, a resident of Rajasthan, had emerged as a major suspect in the case against unknown and unidentified persons involved in ISIS-related activities in countries at peace with India.
NIA had filed a charge-sheet and a supplementary charge- sheet last year in the case but the probe is still on.
“The name of one Rajasthan resident Ayan Khan Salafi alias Muhammadi Ayan alias Al Wala Wal Bara (online identities) had surfaced as a major suspect in the case,” it said.
The agency claimed that he was working in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since 2014.
“On preliminary questioning, it was ascertained that the said Ayan Khan Salafi’s actual name is Amzad Khan, 37 years, resident of...District Churu, Rajasthan,” it said.
According to the NIA, Khan had emerged as one of the principal characters in the conspiracy hatched by the absconding accused, Yusuf-al-Hindi alias Shafi Armar who has already been charge-sheeted and other members of the newly-formed organisation ‘Junood-ul-Khilafa-Fil-Hind’ (JKH).