BENGALURU: NIA arrested a key member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT), Aziz Ahmed alias Jaleel Aziz Ahmed of Tamil Nadu, at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda Worldwide Airport Friday evening, shortly earlier than he was to board a flight. Ahmed was concerned in makes an attempt to radicalise youth to determine an Islamic caliphate in India. Officers mentioned he was going overseas to flee the NIA probe.
The case was filed earlier this 12 months in opposition to six accused, influenced by the ideology of Hizb-ut-Tahrir – a world pan-Islamist and fundamentalist group that desires to determine an Islamic caliphate and implement the structure written by HuT founder Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani.The six accused have been arrested by Chennai Police underneath UAPA in Might.
NIA mentioned Ahmed had performed secret ‘bayaan’ courses to indoctrinate the youth into the ideology of HuT, “which seeks army help from forces inimical to India to attain its nefarious objective”.
