National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a supplementary chargesheet against two ISIS operatives Afshan Parvaiz Jarabi and Tawheed Latief Sofi in cases of the publication of ‘Voice of Hind’ magazine.
The chargesheet detailed how a conspiracy was hatched by proscribed terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to radicalise and recruit impressionable Muslim youth in India to wage violent jihad against the Indian state.
The NIA mentions in its charge sheet that an “organized campaign was launched over the cyberspace supplemented by on-ground terror financing activities”, news agency reported.
Afshan Parvaiz Jarabi and Tawheed Latief Sofi, both residents of Jammu and Kashmir’s Srinagar, have been named in the supplementary charge sheet filed before a special NIA court, Patiala House, New Delhi under sections of the IPC and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Out of the two accused charge-sheeted on Friday, the NIA said Parvaiz is a key ISIS operative and a close associate of charge-sheeted accused Umar Nisar.
“He was also associated with AF-Pak (Afghanistan-Pakistan) based ISIS operatives and was actively involved recruitment for ISIS. After the arrest of Umar Nisar, he was appointed as head of ISIS activities in India and was handling media as well as ground activities of ISIS. He was actively disseminating ISIS propaganda materials through various online platforms,” NIA was reported as saying by news agency.
Meanwhile, Tawheed Latief Sofi was also a close associate of previously charge-sheeted accused persons Umar Nisar and Jufri Jawhar Damudi.
NIA said that Sofi was involved in content editing and poster creation for ISIS propaganda magazine, ‘Voice of Hind’, and had also carried out recce at Hindu temples, government buildings including police stations to carry out subversive acts.
The case was registered by the NIA on June 29 last year against cyber entity Qasim Khurasani and his associates. An earlier charge sheet was filed against four ISIS terrorists in this case on January 6 this year.