ISIS Omar-al-Hindi Kerala module case: NIA conducts raids in Coimbatore and Alappuzha

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency on Thursday conducted searches on three suspected ISIS operatives in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) and Alappuzha (Kerala) while probing its ISIS Omar-al-Hindi module case.
The three suspected are presently being examined by NIA sleuths and if anything incriminating is found against them, they could be arrested, said sources.
NIA had received information that leader of this module - Shajeer Mangalassery, who had gone to ISIS territory in Afghanistan, using online identities Abu Ayisha or Sameer Ali, had been radicalizing vulnerable youth on the ideology of ISIS/ Daesh, over social media platforms and exhorting them to indulge in violent jihad in India.
NIA Inspector General Alok Mittal said that certain persons from Kerala and Tamil Nadu were in touch with the members of the ISIS/ Daesh terror module in this case, over internet based social media platforms and have been radicalized on the ideology of ISIS/ Daesh.
NIA conducted searches at houses and workplaces of such persons today as inputs were received that these three radicalised individuals were inclined to support and further the objectives of the proscribed terrorist organization ISIS/ Daesh.
NIA has already filed a chargesheet against six persons besides Shajeer Mangalassery, who, while being outside India had hatched the criminal conspiracy and formed the terrorist gang to further the objectives of ISIS/ Daesh in India.
Shajeer Mangalassery had migrated to ISIS/ Daesh controlled territory in Afghanistan from the UAE in June 2016.
NIA said that during searches on Thursday, they have recovered several mobile phones, laptops, hard disks, pen drives, DVDs/ CDs, memory cards, SIM cards besides documents, including books and manuscripts that have been seized.
One out of the three persons whose premises have been searched, has also admitted that he had been in regular contact with Abdul Rashid Abdullah, accused in the other ISIS related case of the NIA.