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NIA files charge sheet before special court in New Delhi against 16 suspected IS operatives

National Investigation Agency (NIA) today filed a charge sheet before a special court in New Delhi against 16 suspected Islamic State (IS) operatives, arrested from across the country allegedly on the charges of recruiting and financing people to join the terror group. According to the sources, the agency filed the charge sheet before District Judge Amar Nath in which it has outlined the role of all the accused in a larger conspiracy of ISIS to further its ideology.<br/><br/>The agency claimed that members of banned terror group- Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) – in connivance<br/>with a few resident and non-resident Indians, have been indulging in identification, radicalization, recruitment, training, the source said.<br/>The final report also alleged that some Indian youths were transferred by the accused to countries like Syria, Libya<br/>and Iraq for terror acts.<br/><br/>The accused against whom the agency filed the charge sheet include Mohd Aleem, Mohd Obaidullah Khan, Nafees<br/>Khan, Mohd Shareef Moinuddin Khan, Asif Ali, Najmul Huda, Mudabbir Mushtaq Shaikh, Mohd Abdul Ahad, Suhail Ahmed, Syed Mujahid, Mohd Hussain Khan, Mohd Afzal, Imran and Abu Anas.<br/><br/>They were arrested under several sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Indian Penal Code (IPC). A case was registered by NIA on December 9, 2015 against unknown and unidentified persons involved in the activities of Islamic State in India and Asian powers in peace with India.

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