Afghan national who recruited four Mumbai men for IS shot dead last year

MUMBAI: Afghan national Rehman Dawlaty, who was booked and wanted by Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad (ATS) for helping four Kalyan youth join terror outfit Islamic State (IS) was shot dead by the Afghan forces on May 30, 2017.

The news of Rehman’s death was confirmed by a relative of his wife. He added that Rehman married the woman in 2011 and lived in a rented flat at Kopar Khairane for two months before they left for Afghanistan.

“It was the third day of Ramzan, when he was killed in an encounter outside his house in Kabul. We were informed about his death two months later by his brother Roshan,” the relative said. “We then called his wife, who said Reham’s last rites had been performed.”

Giving into parental pressure, Rehman’s wife returned to India with their four children last month, the relative added. On May 25, 2014, four men from Kalyan— Areeb Majeed, Fahad Shaikh, Amaan Tandel and Saheem Tanki— took an Etihad flight for Baghdad

On May 31, all four —who were in their 20s — hired a cab that dropped them to Mosul after which they were reported missing. It was later learnt that they had joined the terror outfit in Syria

While Majeed returned, Tandel and Sheikh became ‘poster boys’ for the radical outfit

They were even seen in an IS propaganda video, urging Indians to join them

Except Majeed, who is in jail, all three are believed to be dead. “Her parents were anxious about her safety and wanted her to return home at the earliest. Now that she’s back, Rehman’s parents are pressurising her to return to Afghanistan. But we are not sending her,” the relative added.