Mumbai man with IS links nabbed by Delhi police

“The accused, Ibrahim Sayyed, was arrested last night based on a intel tip-off from. Sayyed is a muezzin at Malad in Mumbai. He had come to Delhi to meet an associate,” police said. Sayeed, who is believed to be self-radicalised, was acting as a financier and had given Rs 50,000 to the four persons who were arrested from Haridwar last month. 

All of them were found to have links with a former Indian Mujahideen militant who later went to fight for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “He (Sayyed) was in touch particularly with Akhlaq, one of the four persons arrested last month,” Deep said. 

Meanwhile, police are checking his background record and a special cell team is trying to track down his contacts in the national capital. Delhi Police had last month arrested four persons with suspected ISIS links from Manglour in Uttarakhand and claimed to have unearthed a terror plot to target the Ardh Kumbh Mela at Haridwar, especially the trains headed there, along with some strategic locations in the national capital. 

The suspects were identified as Akhlaq ur-Rehman, Mohammed Osama, Mohammed Azim Shah and Mehroz. “The arrested were allegedly in contact with a former Indian Mujahideen operative, who later went for training in Syria and is presently believed to be a key member of Ansar-ut Tawhid fi Bilad al-Hind (AuT), which has pledged allegiance to the ISIS,” police said. 

Meanwhile, eleven suspected ISIS operatives, who were arrested from across the country for allegedly recruiting and financing people to join the terror group, were today remanded to seven days NIA custody by a Delhi court. 

The NIA, which had sought extension of their custodial interrogation by 10 more days, said in its remand application that the accused have disclosed during their interrogation “their involvement in this case about recruiting and financing persons willing to join the Caliphate of ISIS at Syria”.