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New Delhi: Two men, associated with the international pan-Islamist organisation Hizb-ut-Tahrir, were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday for allegedly radicalising youngsters in Tamil Nadu.
The arrested men have been identified as Abdul Rehman alias Abdul Rahman and Mujibur Rehman alias Mujibur Rahman Altham Sahib, both from Thanjavur district, a statement issued by the NIA said.
Following extensive searches across ten locations in five districts of the state, two individuals were arrested. According to the NIA, they are affiliated with Hizb-ut-Tahrir, an international pan-Islamist and fundamentalist organization dedicated to re-establishing the Islamic caliphate and implementing the constitution authored by the group’s founder, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani.
The NIA reported that individuals were engaged in holding clandestine sessions aimed at indoctrinating youth with extremist ideologies, while depicting democratic principles and the Indian Constitution, along with its legal and judicial systems, as contrary to Islamic teachings.
“NIA investigations revealed that they were involved in conducting secret classes to radicalise youth in extremist ideologies, promoting democracy and the Indian Constitution, law and judiciary etc. as anti-Islamic,” the statement said.
The trainees were taught that India was now “Darul Kufr” (the land of non-believers) and it was their duty to transform it into “Darul Islam” by establishing an Islamic State in the country by waging a violent jihad, the agency said.
“Today’s searches led to the seizure of digital devices (mobile phones, laptops, SIM cards and memory cards) and several incriminating documents, including books and printouts containing the ideology of Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Khilafa, Islamic State and proposed Khilafa government and its funding structures etc.,” it added.
(With PTI inputs)
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