KOCHI: The NIA team investigating the case related to the radicalisation of Kerala youths by terror groups, has found key accused Shajeer Mangalassery had created a group titled ‘The Gate’ on the Telegram app for coordinating terror activities in South India.
Shajeer, a hardcore ISIS ideologist, is the 13th accused in the Kanakamala secret terror camp case. Earlier, the agency had arraigned seven persons as accused in the case.
Shajeer is suspected to be fighting for the IS in the Nagarhar province in eastern Afghanistan. He was one of the leaders of the South Indian module of the IS, which was busted at Kanakamala.
Holed up in the IS stronghold in Afghanistan, he had been in contact with the IS operatives in Kerala through Telegram and regularly posted comments on his Facebook page.
According to an NIA officer, seven Telegram groups were created by the local IS activists, and their administrators are different persons.
Currently, the agency is trying to retrieve information from the accounts.