New Delhi: In order to further agitate the students and create disorder across the country, terror group Islamic State (IS) recruits in India wanted to infiltrate JNU Student Union president Kanhaiya Kumar-led protests at the varsity and other educational institutions.
According to a report in Times of India, the three recruits of India’s ISIS wing, Junud al Khalifa-e-Hind (JKH), Ashiq Ahmad, Mohammad Abdul Ahad and Mohammad have made this disclosure before the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
All the 3 claimed that they were asked to infiltrate the students agitation after Kanhaiya’s arrest to create further chaos and mayhem.
The report claimed that on February 19, when Kanhaiya was in Tihar jail, Ahmed Ali, who was chief of Ansar-ut-Tauhid (AuT), asked Ashiq Ahmad alias Raja of Hooghly, West Bengal, to infiltrate the movement and to set vehicles on fire.
The NIA said that the idea was to further agitate the students so that it creates disorder in the country.
The report cited the information to statements made under Section 164 of CrPC by three of them. This is for the first time that any agency has recorded their statement.
It is suspected that Ali is none other than Shafi Armar, the head of ISIS in India who is learnt to have died a drone attack by US in Syria.
The NIA had recently arrested 23 ISIS suspects. According to them, in last one year, Shafi, a native of Bhatkal in Karnataka, had planned to establish an ISIS unit in every state.
Listed on the Interpol website, Shafi had formed Junud al Khalifa-e-Hind by dismantling the Ansar-ul-Tauhid (AuT), an offshoot of banned terror group Indian Mujahideen.
The report also mentioned that Shafi was in touch with at least 600-700 youth through social media platforms over the past one year, and may have recruited some of them for fight for the group.
Shafi’s elder brother Sultan Armar, who was heading the outfit's India franchise till last year, was killed in March last year while fighting alongside the ISIS in Syria.
The Armar brothers’ link to ISIS was first figured during the interrogation of Yasin Bhatkal, who was arrested near the Nepal border in 2013.
