National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers arrested another Malayali terrorist who was allegedly planning to carry out huge robberies to find funds for the Islamic State (ISIS). Ashif, a native of Thrissur district was caught by the NIA team from Sathyamangalam forest in Tamil Nadu. He testified that he had committed massive robberies to finance terrorism.
After discovering the presence of ISIS terrorists in Kerala, the NIA put many people under surveillance. Officers received information about Ashif’s group collecting funds for ISIS and planning massive robberies. Following the information that some Malayali ISIS terrorists had crossed into Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the NIA team from Kochi was camping in these states and conducting investigations.
After suspecting that he was under NIA surveillance, Ashif shifted his hideout to the forests of Sathyamangalam. An NIA team from Kochi nabbed Ashif from the Sathyamangalam forest in Tamil Nadu. The accused was produced before the NIA court in Kochi and remanded. The NIA is preparing to take him into custody and interrogate him in detail.
Earlier this week, HinduPost reported how another group of terrorists with Kerala links were detained. The Bengaluru Police averted a major terror plot after arresting five terrorists on Wednesday, reports Times of India. But 5 other terrorists who were part of this 10-man module are still absconding.
“The five accused, identified as Sayed Suhel, Umar, Junaid, Mudasir, and Jahid, were accused in a 2017 murder case and were in Parappana Agrahara Central jail where they came in contact with terrorists,” reported news agency ANI quoting CCB officials.
The Central Crime Branch unit of the Bengaluru police apprehended the men who were believed to be involved in planning a huge explosion in the city, acting swiftly on intelligence inputs. All the terror suspects are linked to the hardline Islamist outfit Jamaat-e-Islami, TV reports quoted officials.
While they were in jail for their involvement in a murder case in RT Nagar in Bengaluru, they came in contact with T. Nazeer, a dangerous Laskhar-e-Taiba top terrorist who is the main accused in the 2008 Bengaluru serial blast and other terror cases. In 2013, Nazeer was convicted by NIA for recruiting Kerala youths for terror activities in the Kashmir valley.
Nazeer is a disciple of the dangerous Abdul Nasser Madani. No sooner did the Congress come back to power in Karnataka than the party and its infamous ‘ecosystem’ ensured that Madani got bail and he traveled to Kerala. Is he the mastermind behind all these Islamic terrorists in South Bharat, especially Kerala?
Incidentally, The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the former president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and prime accused in the 2008 Bengaluru serial bomb blast case, Abdul Nassir Madani, to move and reside in his hometown in Kerala. A bench of Justices A.S. Bopanna and M.M. Sundresh allowed the PDP leader’s application on the condition that he will appear at a designated police station in Kollam in Kerala every two weeks. Hindus are apprehensive and expect terror cases to rise once Madani returns to Kerala. The terror suspect allegedly has the full backing of the green communists ruling the state.
