Six HuT leaders in TN had Pak contacts, says NIA

Chennai: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has accused six arrested Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) leaders in Tamil Nadu of being in contact with Pakistani counterparts. They had propagated newsletters and articles regarding the "violent cession of Kashmir with military assistance from Pakistan" to radicalise the gullible youth in the state, said NIA . "They were actively involved in acts preparatory to the commission of terror acts here," NIA stated in the chargesheet filed before the court for NIA cases in Poonamallee on Friday.

Dr Hameed Hussain, Ahmad Mansoor, Abdur Rahman, Mohamed Maurice, Khadar Nawaz Sheriff and Ahmed Ali have been chargesheeted by the NIA under sections 34, 120B, 153A & 153B of BNS and sections 13 and 18 of the UA(P) Act. NIA framed the accused for organising recruitment drive meets with religious heads to recruit Muslim youth to promote its violent jihadi ideology to establish an Islamic caliphate in India and enforce the draft Islamic constitution of HuT founder Sheikh Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani. "As part of the conspiracy, the accused were knowingly and deliberately disseminating false and anti-national content and were also engaged in fostering disharmony between groups with the explicit objective of disturbing the national integration, sovereignty, and territorial integrity," said NIA.



NIA initiated the crackdown on HuT after city police arrested the six in May following their anti-India content on social media. NIA took over the case in Aug. Since then, the agency has arrested two more accused Aziz Ahamed alias Jaleel Aziz Ahmed, and TN HuT leader Faizul Rahman.

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