In connection with the ISIS “Voice of Hind” module case, the anti-terror federal investigation agency, NIA, announced today that it had carried out searches at two places in Varanasi and Delhi and had arrested a 24-year-old highly radicalized youth named Basit Kalam Siddiqui.
The NIA claimed in a statement that the arrested suspect was actively involved in radicalizing and recruiting young people from India for ISIS to commit acts of terrorism in India. Mobile phones, laptops, pen drives, handwritten notes about the creation of IEDs and explosive substances, and other incriminating items were found during searches, according to the NIA. The agency also noted that it had previously filed one main and one supplementary chargesheet in this case against six people in a special Delhi court.
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“After busting the ‘Voice of Hind’ module, it was revealed that under a revised strategy, the online propaganda was being pushed through a new online magazine ‘Voice of Khorasan’,” it said.
According to the NIA, Siddiqui was in contact with ISIS handlers and engaged in the creation, publication, and dissemination of ISIS propaganda through “Voice of Khurasan.”
According to the report, “on the orders of his handlers based in Afghanistan, he was trying to fabricate an explosive and learning how to use other lethal chemical substances to be used for the fabrication of IEDs,” adding that he was also teaching people how to make explosives through several Telegram groups he ran.
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