Couple with links to ISIS module held in Delhi
Duo was actively involved in anti-CAA protests, planned suicide attacks
A husband wife duo who hails from Kashmir and are suspected to be Islamic State Khorasan Province terrorists were arrested by the Delhi Police Special cell from Jamia Nagar in Okhla.
The duo were allegedly actively involved in the anti-CAA protests. The sources, meanwhile, alleged that the couple was planning to carry out suicide attacks in the country. They urged Muslims to unite against CAA. “The man Jahanzaib Sami alias Dawood Ibrahim (36), a native of Shivpora in Shrinagar, and his wife Hinda Bashir Beigh (39) had links with the ISKP and were arrested on Sunday,” said Pramod Kushwaha, DCP (Special Cell).
They were members of banned terrorist outfit ISIS and were propagating its ideology of hatred against non-Muslims.
They are also inciting Muslims to take up violent struggle against the state. Four mobile phones, one laptop, one external hard-disc and other materials were seized From the interrogation, it has been found that they have created several anonymous Ids on several social media platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. to propagate the ideology of ISIS and were also circulating material against CAA.
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A husband-wife duo, who hails from Kashmir and are suspected to be Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) terrorists, were arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell from Jamia Nagar area in Okhla. The duo was allegedly actively involved in the recent anti-CAA protests.
Sources alleged that the couple was planning to carry out suicide attacks in the country. They urged Muslims to unite against the CAA. “The man, Jahanzaib Sami alias Dawood Ibrahim (36), a native of Shivpora in Shrinagar, and his wife, Hinda Bashir Beigh (39), had links with the ISKP and were arrested on Sunday,” said DCP (Special Cell) Pramod Singh Kushwaha.
“They were members of banned terrorist outfit ISIS and were propagating its ideology of hatred against non-Muslims and thereby inciting Muslims to kill non-Muslims. They were also inciting Muslims to take up violent struggle against the state. In addition, they were inciting Muslims against the CAA,” the DCP said.
Four mobile phones, one laptop, one external harddisc, and other incriminating materials were
The couple were members of banned terrorist outfit ISIS and were propagating its ideology of hatred against nonMuslims and thereby inciting Muslims to kill non-Muslims. They were also inciting Muslims to take up violent struggle against the state.
seized from their house.
From the interrogation, it has been found that they have created several anonymous IDs on several social media platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, Threema, Surespot, Instagram, Twitter, etc. and propagating the ideology of banned outfit ISIS and circulating material against government established law for enacting the Citizenship Amendment Act. Both were in touch with senior ISKP members in Afghanistan to exploit the ongoing agitation against the amended citizenship law to incite Muslim youths to carry out terror strikes. Prima facie it seems that they are linked with the ISIS module.
Sami has done B.Tech and MBA and was doing web designing and media related work. They recently started living in Delhi.
Damaging kind of literature against the country has been recovered from them. The literature is against other communities. The police recovered electronic gadgets and incriminating material promoting jihadi thoughts from their possession.
Sami came under the radar due to his activities on cyberspace, which revealed his intention to carry out suicide attacks in the country. Earlier, he was also in contact with Khurasan-based Huzaifa Bakistani.
During interrogation, Sami revealed that he was actively involved on various social media platforms calling on Indian Muslims to unite and fight against the Indian establishment in protest against the CAA legislation, sources said. He also revealed that he was trying to arrange firearms and ammunitions for his planned activities against the CAA.
Sami told the police that he was actively involved in the propagation of recently published IS magazine ‘Sawt al-Hind’ (Voice of India) in the month of February 2020. He revealed that one of his close associates, Khattab, was in fact Abdullah Basith who is currently lodged in Tihar jail as an undertrial in ISIS-related cases.
Meanwhile, Sami’s wife Hinda was also active on pro-IS social media platforms under the name of Catijah al Kashmiri/Hannabee and played the role of facilitator in spotting talents on cyberspace and further motivating them.
The duo has been arrested under appropriate sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAP). The police sources said that probe is in initial stage and multiple raids are being conducted in and around Delhi and in the coming days more people might be detained.