COIMBATORE: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested four more people, including three from Coimbatore, following searches at 21 locations across Tamil Nadu in connection with the ISIS-inspired Coimbatore car bomb blast and ISIS recruitment cases.
According to a NIA press release, a large number of electronic devices, material objects and documents, including six laptop, 25 mobile phones, 34 SIM cards, six SD cards, three hard discs, etc.
The arrested were identified as Jameel Basha Umari of Chennai who had worked at Madras Arabic College and allegedly promoted fundamentalism, extremism and radicalised students, Maulvi Hussain Faizy alias Mohammed Hussain Faizy, a teacher at Coimbatore Arabic College, and Irshath, an Arabic school teacher who were Jameel’s students.
The fourth suspect was identified as Abdul Rahman Umari of Pollachi, who led the recruitment. He is a member of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), which is a banned outfit, and propagated ISIS ideology to those connected with the car bomb blast, according to NIA.
The four were produced before NIA special court at Poonamallee and remanded to Puzhal central prison.
According to NIA, Madras Arabic College and Kovai Arabic College were allegedly involved in the clandestine radicalization of young individuals under the guise of Arabic classes.
Besides, ISIS operatives allegedly used social media to impart radical sermons to propagate Khilafat and ISIS ideologies contrary to India’s secular and democratic principles, it stated.