India: Charges filed against ISIS-linked man targeting Hindu leaders, Ahmadiyya mosques

"After travelling 15 hours from Tehran to the city of Mashhad in Iran, we were informed on chat that there were some Keralites in Mashhad who were also travelling to IS territory"

Moinudheen Parakadavath

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: The Times of India
By Neeraj Chauhan | TNN | Aug 11, 2017

NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency on Friday filed a chargesheet against Islamic State operative Moinudheen Parakadavath, who was a member of outfit called Ansarul Khilafa-Kerala, formed by Shajeer Mangalessary.

Moinudheen, a resident of Kasargod, had also travelled to Tehran alongwith the group leader Shajeer and even met 5 members of the 22 missing persons from Kerala, who are now in Afghanistan, at the Iran border. He was deported from UAE on February 15 this year.

He had told the investigators that the eight member group wanted to target several Hindu leaders, Ahmadiyya mosques and Jamaat-e-Islami Hind to "create ripples" in India and mark ISIS's presence.

In one of his conversations in a closed IS group on `Telegram' channel, he had informed NIA officials, that someone posted details of a Jamaat-e-Islami programme to be held in Kochi last year where Rahul Eashwar, a Hindu orator, was invited as a speaker.
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