BENGALURU: A special court for the National Investigation Agency in Bengaluru recently rejected the pleas of two terror case accused that their names be dropped from the chargesheet. Their argument was that their alleged IS-related activities took place in 2013 whereas the organisation was banned and brought under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act only in 2015.
Irfan Nasir alias Irfi, 33, of Fraser Town and Ahmed Adbul Cadre alias Kaka, 39, of New Gurappanapalya, were arrested by NIA in October 2021 for raising funds, radicalising and recruiting Muslim youths of a Quran Circle group and illegally sending six of them to Syria to join IS during 2013-14. Two more accused from Bengaluru — Abdur Rahman, an ophthalmologist and Muhammed Taquir Mahmood, a dentist — were arrested in the same case later and are yet to be chargesheeted.
