Chargesheet against 8 in IS module case
The National Investigation Agency filed a chargesheet in the NIA special court in Bengaluru against eight persons, including former MLA B.M. Idinabba’s daughter-in-law Deepthi Marla alias Mariyam, in connection with the IS terrorist Kerala module case.
The others named in the chargesheet are Mohammed Waqar Lone alias Wilson Kashmiri, Mizha Siddeeque, Shifa Haris alias Ayesha, Obaid Hamid Matta, Madesh Shankar alias Abdullah, Ammar Abdul Rahiman and Muzamil Hassan Bhat. The NIA had registered a case in March 2021 pertaining to the alleged terrorist activities of Mohammed Ameen alias Abu Yahya, a resident of Kerala, and his associates, who had allegedly been running various IS propaganda channels on different social media platforms, such as Telegram, Hoop and Instagram, and radicalising and recruiting new members for the IS module.
Earlier, NIA had filed chargesheet against three accused persons in this case in September 2021. According to officials, investigation revealed that all the eight accused are affiliated with banned terrorist organisation IS.
They were involved in radicalising, recruiting, organising terror funds and grooming likeminded gullible Muslim youth through different social media platforms to join IS.