NIA Court Sends 'IS Active Member' Mohsin Ahmad To 30-Day Judicial Custody

The alleged IS man is a resident of Delhi's Batla House area and was nabbed after a search operation conducted by NIA weeks ahead of India's 75th Independence Day.

A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on Tuesday sent alleged ISIS active member Mohsin Ahmad to  judicial custody for 30 days. According to reports, Ahmad was taken into custody on August 6 and was produced to court earlier in the day at the end of his remand. The alleged IS man is a resident of Delhi's Batla House area and was nabbed after a search operation conducted by NIA weeks ahead of India's 75th Independence Day.

Ahmad is accused of being involved in the activities of ISIS module case which was registered suo-moto by the investing agency under sections 153A, & 153B of IPC and sections 18, 18B, 38, 39 & 40 of UA (P) Act.

"Ahmad is a radicalised and active member of Islamic State (IS). He has been arrested for his involvement in collection of funds for IS from sympathisers in India as well as abroad. He was sending these funds to Syria and other places in form of cryptocurrency in order to further the activities of IS," new agency IANS had quoted a NIA official as saying.

Ahmad was produced before the duty magistrate at Patiala House Courts which remanded him to only one-day NIA custody on August 8. Ahmad was again produced before the court by the NIA which sought his six-day remand. After hearing the arguments, the court remanded Ahmad to NIA'S custody.

NIA conducted searches in the residential premises of the accused in Batla House and in Bihar and subsequently had arrested him in the case pertaining to online and on ground activities of IS.

As per NIA, Ahmad has links with several states and they need to take him to another state for the recovery of evidence and arresting his aide.

Earlier this week, the NIA even carried out raids at multiple places in Jammu and Doda districts of J&K in connection with a terror funding case. NIA sources close to IANS said multiple raids were carried out simultaneously in Jammu and Doda districts at the offices/premises of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) members.

According to reports, these searches pertained to fund collection by JeI in the name of 'Zakat' (Charity) and other religious activities, but these funds were used for supporting secessionist activities.

(With inputs from IANS.)