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NIA Arrests One More in ISIS-Voice of Hind Case

An NIA official here said that the anti-terror probe agency has arrested Damudi in connection with ISIS-Voice of Hind case.

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested one Jufri Jawhar Damudi from Karnataka’s Bhatkal in connection with an ISIS module case after carrying out searches at two locations.

An NIA official here said that the anti-terror probe agency has arrested Damudi in connection with ISIS-Voice of Hind case.

“This cyber id was also used to radicalise and recruit people,” the official said, adding that Damudi is the younger brother of Adnan Hasan Damudi, who was arrested for ISIS related activities in 2016 and is currently under detention in a separate NIA case.

The official said that Damudi was in touch with the ISIS leadership operating out of Afghanistan-Pakistan region, who provided him propaganda materials and also gave directions for their dissemination.

For this purpose, Damudi had created multiple false Ids on encrypted chat platforms. He was also a member of various online propaganda channels of ISIS.

During the searches conducted on Friday, a large number of digital devices such as mobile phones, hard disks, SD cards etc. were seized, the official said.

A case was registered on June 29 this year in connection with the conspiracy of the proscribed terrorist organisation ISIS to radicalise and recruit impressionable Muslim youth in India to wage violent jihad against the Indian state.

ISIS terrorists operating from various conflict zones along with ISIS cadres in India had created a network by assuming pseudo online identities wherein ISIS related propaganda materials were disseminated for radicalising and recruiting people into the ISIS fold.

The official said that earlier, the NIA had conducted multiple searches in Jammu and Kashmir on July 11 and arrested three accused persons — Umar Nisar, Tanveer Ahmad Bhat and Rameez Ahmad Lone — all residents of Anantnag in J&K.

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