This Article is From Mar 12, 2022

ISIS Terrorists Launched Online Recruitment Campaign, Says Chargesheet

An organized campaign was launched over the cyberspace supplemented by on-ground terror financing activities, said NIA in its chargesheet.

ISIS Terrorists Launched Online Recruitment Campaign, Says Chargesheet

The NIA filed the supplementary chargesheet against two ISIS terrorists. (Representational)

New Delhi:

A supplementary chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 'Voice of Hind Case' details how a conspiracy was hatched by banned terrorist organization ISIS to radicalise and recruit impressionable Muslim youth in India to wage violent jihad against India.

In order to execute its nefarious plans, the NIA mentions in its chargesheet that an "organized campaign was launched over the cyberspace supplemented by on-ground terror financing activities".

NIA filed the supplementary chargesheet against two ISIS terrorists Afshan Parvaiz Jarabi and Tawheed Latief Sofi, both residents of Srinagar, before a Special Court in the national capital under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC), and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.

Out of the two accused charge-sheeted on Friday, the NIA said Parvaiz is a key ISIS operative and a close associate of charge-sheeted accused Umar Nisar.

"He was also associated with AF-Pak (Afghanistan-Pakistan) based ISIS operatives and was actively involved recruitment for ISIS. After the arrest of Umar Nisar, he was appointed as head of ISIS activities in India and was handling media as well as ground activities of ISIS. He was actively disseminating ISIS propaganda materials through various online platforms," said the NIA.

The other accused Tawheed Latief Sofi was also a close associate of previously charge-sheeted accused persons Umar Nisar and Jufri Jawhar Damudi.

The NIA said that Sofi was involved in content editing and poster creation for ISIS propaganda magazine, 'Voice of Hind' and had also carried out recees at Hindu temples, government buildings including police stations to carry out subversive acts.

The case was registered by the NIA on June 29 last year against cyber entity Qasim Khurasani and his associates.

An earlier chargesheet was filed against four ISIS terrorists in this case on January 6 this year.

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