Guwahati: A Delhi court on Monday mandated that an active ISIS member be held in NIA custody for incarceration-style questioning until August 16. The ISIS member was detained on accusations of attempting to raise money for the global terrorist group.
According to national media reports, District Judge Dharmesh Sharma extended the custodial interrogation of Mohsin Ahmad, who originally hails from Patna in Bihar, on a plea filed by the probe agency after he was produced before the court.
Reportedly, the case had been suo-moto registered by the NIA on June 25.
“Ahmad is a radicalised and involved ISIS member. He was detained for his role in the solicitation of donations from ISIS supporters both inside and outside of India he was sending these cash in the form of crypto currencies to Syria and other locations to support ISIS’s activities, national media reports.
Moreover, Arariya in Bihar, Bhatkal and Tumkur City in Karnataka, Kolhapur and Nanded in Maharashtra, and Deoband in Uttar Pradesh were among the 13 locations searched by the anti-terror agency on July 31. The other locations were Bhopal and Raisen in Madhya Pradesh, Bharuch, Surat, Navsari, and Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Bharuch, Surat, and Navsari and Ahmedabad in Bihar.