NIA chargesheets doc for ‘app to guide IS missiles’

The NIA on Tuesday filed a chargesheet towards an MBBS physician from Bengaluru for his alleged affiliation with the Islamic State and for allegedly getting ready an app that would information IS missiles.
Dr Abdur Rehman alias Dr Brave, 28, was arrested by the company final yr in reference to its probe into the affairs of Kashmiri couple Jahanzaib Sami and Hina Kausar Beg, who have been arrested from Delhi’s Jamia Nagar in March final yr on the allegations of being IS members and instigating violence on the anti-CAA protests.

“The accused has been chargesheeted for furthering ideology and activities of proscribed terrorist organisation ISIS/ISKP (Islamic State in Khorasan Province) in connivance with co-accused Jahanzaib Sami and others for committing subversive/anti national activities in India,” an NIA assertion stated.
The NIA has claimed that Rehman received radicalised listening to “online lectures of hardline Islamic preachers” akin to Anwar al Awlaki and travelled to Syria in 2013 and “participated in various terrorist activities of ISIS”. After his return to India, NIA has claimed, Rehman continued to stay related to the ideology of IS.
“Utilizing his knowledge of Ophthalmic Lasers and Medical Science, he made efforts to develop applications for medical and military requirements of ISIS. To this end, he was in regular communication with ISIS terrorists located abroad as well as in India, including Jahanzaib Sami, on Threema, a secure messaging platform. Consequently, he had achieved significant progress towards developing a medical application for treatment of ISIS terrorists and also a Laser Guided Anti-Tank Missile application for controlling the trajectory of the missiles for enhancing their effectiveness for furthering the cause of ISIS,” the NIA chargesheet has claimed.
The company had earlier filed a chargesheet on September 2 final yr towards 5 accused, together with Sami and Beigh. Both have been arrested first by Delhi Police in March final yr. Later NIA had taken their custody in reference to its probe into an IS terror conspiracy involving Hyderabad youth Abdullah Basith. NIA has claimed that in this probe, Rahman alias Dr Brave from Bengaluru was arrested in August final yr. His examination had led to additional arrests of people that allegedly supported his journey to Syria.

“Further investigation resulted in busting of a module wherein it was revealed that accused Ahamed Abdul Cader, Irfan Nasir and their associates were members of Hizb-ut-Tehrir, and they had formed a group called ‘Quran Circle’ which radicalised gullible Muslim youth in Bengaluru and funded their visit to conflict zone in Syria to aid and assist the ISIS terrorists,” NIA had earlier stated.
NIA claimed that Cader and Nasir equally funded different youths. “Two of such youths got killed in Syria,” it claimed.