New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against six persons accused of radicalising youth in Tamil Nadu for the militant organisation Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) to establish an Islamic Caliphate in India, according to an official statement.
The accused—Dr Hameed Hussain, Ahmad Mansoor, Abdur Rahman, Mohamed Maurice, Khader Nawaz Sherif, and Ahmed Ali—are key members of HuT, tasked with recruitment drives and meetings with religious leaders to promote the organisation’s violent ideology, the NIA said.
The investigation revealed that the accused maintained contact with Pakistan-based HuT counterparts and disseminated incendiary content from HuT’s Central Media Office, including material advocating the violent secession of Kashmir with Pakistan’s support. They also distributed anti-national propaganda aimed at disrupting national integration and sovereignty while preparing for terror acts, the statement added.
The case, initially registered by Tamil Nadu Police, was later taken over by the NIA in Chennai.
In a separate case, a Bangladeshi national, Rabiul Islam, was sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs20,000 by the NIA special court in Kolkata. A member of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Rabiul was found guilty of conspiring to wage war against India by recruiting and motivating Muslim youth as part of JMB’s anti-India agenda.
The case has been under NIA investigation since August 2021 after it was transferred from West Bengal Police. Rabiul was among five chargesheeted in the case, the agency said.
