NIA arrests ‘active ISIS member' from Delhi's Batla House ahead of I-Day, seeks 7-day custody

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested an active ISIS member from Delhi's Btala House area, an official said on Sunday, claiming the “radicalised" individual was collecting funds for the global terror group. The NIA has presented the accused in a Delhi court and sought seven days of custody.

The accused, identified as Mohsin Ahmad, originally hailing from Patna in Bihar, was arrested by NIA's search party on Saturday after a search operation was conducted at his residence. According to the probe agency, Ahmad is a "radicalised and active member of ISIS" and was arrested for his "involvement in collection of funds for ISIS from sympathisers in India as well as abroad".

NIA further said that the accused was sending these funds to Syria and other places in the form of cryptocurrency in order to further ISIS’ activities.

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The NIA had registered the case suo-moto on June 25. Further investigations in the case are in progress, the NIA said.

On July 31, the anti-terror agency had carried out searches at 13 premises of suspected persons across six states — Bhopal and Raisen in Madhya Pradesh, Bharuch, Surat, Navsari and Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Arariya in Bihar, Bhatkal and Tumkur City in Karnataka, Kolhapur and Nanded in Maharashtra and Deoband in Uttar Pradesh.

With PTI inputs