The National Investigation Agency, NIA, has taken into custody the man accused of forcing a Gujarat-based woman to convert and attempting to sell her off to ISIS terrorists in Syria.<br/><br/>An NIA official in Kochi said, the accused, Muhammed Riyaz Rasheed was intercepted at the Chennai airport on his arrival from Jeddah. He said, the agency is examining him at Chennai.<br/><br/>Recently, NIA had registered a case against nine people hailing from Kerala and Bangalore in Karnataka for allegedly being involved in forcibly converting the 25-year-old woman, who hails from Pathanamthitta district of Kerala and is settled in Gujarat.<br/><br/>They have also been accused of involvement in attempting to sell her off to ISIS terrorists in Syria.'Rasheed, who also hails from Kerala, is the main accused in the case.He is expected to be produced before the NIA special court in Kochi tomorrow after the agency records his arrest.
News On AIR | February 2, 2018 8:47 PM
NIA detains key accused in forced conversion of woman