CHENNAI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has accused six arrested Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) leaders in Tamil Nadu of being in contact with their 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 various acts preparatory to the commission of terror acts here,” the 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 the IPC and sections 13 and 18 of the UA(P) Act.
The NIA framed the accused for organising recruitment drive meetings with religious heads (ulemas and imams) to recruit Muslim youth to promote its violent jihadi ideology for the purpose of establishing an Islamic caliphate in India and to 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 of India,” said the NIA.
The NIA initiated the crackdown on HuT after the Chennai city police arrested the six conspirators in May following their anti-India content on social media. The NIA took over the case for investigation in August. Since then, the agency has arrested two more accused — Aziz Ahamed alias Jaleel Aziz Ahmed, and TN HuT leader Faizul Rahman.
The Union govt declared HuT a banned organisation in October.
