NIA says the accused were using different internet channels/ services to further outfit's ideology.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today filed a chargesheet before a special court against 16 suspected ISIS operatives, arrested from across the country allegedly on the charges of recruiting and financing people to join the terror group.
According to the sources, the agency filed the chargesheet before District Judge Amar Nath in which it has outlined the role of all the accused in a larger conspiracy of ISIS to further its ideology.
The agency claimed that members of banned terror group - ISIS - in connivance with a few resident and non-resident Indians, have been indulging in identification, radicalisation, recruitment, training, the source said.
The final report also alleged that some Indian men were transferred by the accused to countries like Syria, Lybia and Iraq for terror acts.
It also claimed that the accused, who are currently in judicial custody, were using different internet channels/ services, telephone and one-on-one meetings to further outfit's ideology.
The accused persons against whom the agency filed the charge sheet include Mohd Aleem, Mohd Obaidullah Khan, Nafees Khan, Mohd Shareef Moinuddin Khan, Asif Ali, Najmul Huda, Mudabbir Mushtaq Shaikh, Mohd Abdul Ahad, Suhail Ahmed, Syed Mujahid, Mohd Hussain Khan, Mohd Afzal, Imran and Abu Anas. They were arrested from different parts of the country for allegedly recruiting and financing people to join the terror organisation.
They were arrested under several sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Indian Penal Code (IPC). A case was registered by NIA on December 9, 2015 against unknown and unidentified persons involved in the activities of ISIS in India and Asian powers in peace with India.