2 held in Bengaluru IS module case

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 8

The NIA on Wednesday arrested two men in connection with the Bengaluru IS module case.

Agency officials said searches were conducted on the premises of Ahamed Abdul Cader and Irfan Nasir in Bengaluru on Wednesday and incriminating material and electronic devices were seized.

The accused were produced before a special court in Bengaluru and sent in 10-day NIA custody.

Cader, a resident of Ramanathpuram in Tamil Nadu, was working as a business analyst in a bank in Chennai. Irfan Nasir was a rice merchant in Bengaluru.

“The NIA registered a case on September 19 after certain incriminating information emerged about a Bengaluru-based IS module during the investigation of the Islamic State Khorasan Province case in which Dr Abdur Rahman, alias Dr Brave of Bengaluru, was arrested,” said an official.

“During Rahman’s interrogation, names of his associates who had travelled to Syria in 2013-2014 to join the IS, surfaced. Further probe revealed that Cader and Nasir were members of the Hizb-ut-Tehrir and had formed a group called Quran Circle,” a senior NIA official said.