The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a charge-sheet against an accused in the Ghazwa-e-Hind case of Patna.
The agency filed the charge-sheet against accused Marghoob Ahmad Danish before the NIA Special Court, Patna in the case which relates to radicalization of impressionable youth over various social media platforms for carrying out violent terrorist acts.
The case was initially registered as FIR No. 840/2022 dated July 14 at Phulwarisharif police station in Patna and re-registered by NIA on July 22 last year.
“Investigations have revealed that accused Marghoob Ahmad Danish was the admin of WhatsApp Group ‘Ghazwa E Hind’ created by a Pakistani national namely Zain, and had added many persons from India as well as other countries, including Pakistan and Yemen, with an intention to radicalize them and to constitute them into Sleeper cells for carrying out terrorist activities,” the agency said in a statement.
Accused Marghoob Ahmad Danish had created the said ‘Ghazwa E Hind’ group on different social media platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Bip Messenger. He had also created another WhatsApp group in the name of ‘BDGhazwa E HindBD’ and had added Bangladeshi nationals, it said.
The accused person has been chargesheeted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code including 121 (waging war against the government of India), 121A (conspiracy to overawe the Central or any State government by means of criminal force or the show of criminal force) and 122 (collecting arms, etc., with intention of waging war against the Government of India) and relevant provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
Danish alias Tahir Ahmed is a resident of Muneer Colony, near Qabristan Phulwarisharif, Patna, Bihar. Further investigations in the case are in progress.