NIA charge sheets against Bihar resident for ‘radicalization’ of youth over social media
On Friday the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet in connection with the ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind‘ case against a man before a special court in Patna. The matter pertains to the radicalization of impressionable youth over various social media platforms for carrying out violent terror acts.
The accused Marghoob Ahmad Danish alias Tahir, a resident of Phulwari Sharif in Patna was charge-sheeted under sections 121, 121A, 122 of the IPC and sections 13, 18, 18B, and 20 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The NIA said “Investigations have revealed that the accused Marghoob Ahmad Danish was the admin of WhatsApp Group ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ created by a Pakistani national named Zain, and had added many persons from India as well as other countries, including Pakistan and Yemen, with an intention to radicalize them and to include them into sleeper cells for carrying out terror activities. The accused Marghoob Ahmad Danish had created the said ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ group on different social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Bip Messenger. He had also created another WhatsApp group in the name of ‘BDGhazwa-e-HindBD‘ and had added Bangladeshi nationals.”
The case was initially registered in July 2022 at Phulwari Sharif police station and later the probe into the matter was taken over by the NIA.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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