The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a man named Abdur Rahman working as an ophthalmologist in Bengaluru’ s MS Ramaiah Medical College over alleged links with the Islamic State, the Hindustan Times had reported quoting an NIA press release.
The NIA had raided premises of Abdur Rahman in Bengaluru and seized digital devices like laptops, phones, and other incriminating material.
Abdur Rahman was developing a medical app for the benefit of injured ISIS terrorists in Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP).
ISKP is the branch Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He was also developing a weaponry-related application for ISIS terrorists.
Abdur Rahman is a resident of Basavanagudi in Bengaluru and is said to have visited Syria in 2014. He had treated IS terrorists and had stayed with IS operatives for 10 days before returning to India.
The arrest of Abdur Rahman was based on a case registered by the Delhi Police Special Cell in March 2020 following the arrest of a Kashmiri couple – Jahanzaib Sami Wani and his wife Hina Bashir Beigh from Okhla Vihar, Jamia Nagar in Delhi who had links with ISKP.
Two others from Pune – Sadiya Anwar Sheikh and Nabeel Siddick Khatri were arrested in this case with the charge of conspiracy to further activities of ISIS in India.
Abdur Rahman had conspired with Jahanzaib Sami and other Syria-based ISIS operatives on secure messaging platforms to further ISIS activities.