The NIA on Friday filed a chargesheet against eight accused persons in ISIS Kerala Module case. The eight chargesheeted alleged ISIS terrorists are Deepthi Marla alias Maryam, Mohammad Waqar Lone alias Wilson Kashmiri, Mizha Siddeeque, Shifa Haris alias Ayesha, Obaid Hamid Matta, Madesh Shankar alias Abdullah, Ammar Abdul Rahiman and Muzamil Hassan Bhat, the NIA said in a statement. The NIA had registered the case on March 5, 2021 pertaining to terrorist activities of Mohammed Ameen alias Abu Yahya of Kerala and his associates, who have been running various ISIS propaganda channels on different social media platforms such as Telegram, Hoop and Instagram for propagating the violent Jihadi ideology of ISIS and radicalizing and recruiting new members for the ISIS module. Earlier, the NIA had filed chargesheet against three accused persons in this case on September 8 last year.
“Investigation has revealed that all the eight accused persons chargesheeted today are affiliated with banned terrorist organization ISIS and were involved in radicalising, recruiting, organising terror funds and grooming like-minded gullible Muslim youth through different secured social media platforms to perform Hijrat to ISIS controlled territory for joining ISIS,” the NIA said, adding, further investigation in the case is continuing.