Six HuT leaders in Tamil Nadu have been in contact with their Pak counterparts: NIA | Chennai Information

CHENNAI: The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has accused six arrested Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) leaders in Tamil Nadu of being in touch with their Pakistani counterparts. That they had propagated newsletters and articles relating to the “violent cession of Kashmir with navy help from Pakistan” to radicalise the gullible youth within the state, mentioned NIA.
“They have been actively concerned in numerous acts preparatory to the fee of terror acts right here,” the NIA acknowledged within the chargesheet filed earlier than the courtroom for NIA instances 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 below 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 conferences with spiritual heads (ulemas and imams) to recruit Muslim youth to advertise its violent jihadi ideology for the aim of creating an Islamic caliphate in India and to implement the draft Islamic structure of HuT founder Sheikh Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani.
“As a part of the conspiracy, the accused have been knowingly and intentionally disseminating false and anti-national content material and have been additionally engaged in fostering disharmony between teams with the express goal of disturbing the nationwide integration, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of India,” mentioned the NIA.
The NIA initiated the crackdown on HuT after the Chennai metropolis police arrested the six conspirators in Might following their anti-India content material on social media. The NIA took over the case for investigation in August. Since then, the company has arrested two extra accused — Aziz Ahamed alias Jaleel Aziz Ahmed, and TN HuT chief Faizul Rahman.
The Union govt declared HuT a banned organisation in October.