A special NIA court in Mumbai on Friday remanded Mustaq Shaikh to transit for three days so that NIA officials can produce him before Patiala House court in Delhi for regular remand.
A special NIA court in Mumbai on Friday remanded Mustaq Shaikh to transit for three days so that NIA officials can produce him before Patiala House court in Delhi for regular remand.
The NIA said that Shaikh was using an alias, Abu Musab. The agency did not clarify whether this was Shaikh’s online name as a recruiter. A source in an anti-terror establishment also said that Shaikh may be indirectly linked to the set of indoctrinators who indoctrinated the four Malwani youth who fled their homes, including Ayaz Sultan, who is said to have joined ISIS. Sultan’s last location was traced to Kabul.
Shaikh has been booked under Section 125 (waging war against any Asiatic Power in alliance with the Government of India) of the IPC and Sections 18 (punishment for conspiracy or attempts to the commission of a terrorist act or any act preparatory to the commission of a terrorist act), 18B (punishment for recruiting of any person or persons for terrorist act), 38 (Offences relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) and 39 (Offences relating to support given to a terrorist organisation) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, amended in 2008 and 2013.
Shaikh was produced on Friday before special NIA judge N.K. More. NIA prosecutor Anand Sukhdev told the court that the investigating agency arrested this person on credible inputs that he was recruiting Indian and foreign youth for terrorist organisations like ISIS and Daesh.
Mr Sukhdev told the judge that the police have found some incriminating documents and materials from him and want to search his computer hard disc, pen drive and media files.
The court was informed that the FIR for which Shaikh has been arrested, has been filed in Delhi.
