Kerala police said “at Qureshi’s house in Mumbai, Ebin was taken to a library”.
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A case under IPC sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 153 A (promoting enmity between groups) as well as under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act was registered in Kochi against Qureshi.
Arshid Qureshi was arrested after the police raided a flat in Seawoods, Navi Mumbai.He was produced before a magistrate’s court in CBD-Belapur on Thursday and remanded in transit custody for 4 days. The Kerala Police which obtained Qureshi’s transit remand will now question him about his alleged role in the case.
At least 21 youths went missing from Kerala in June and are said to have joined Daesh.
The UAPA case follows a missing person’s complaint registered by the family of Merin alias Mariam, who is missing along with her husband Bestin Vincent alias Yahia, at the Palarivattom police station in Kerala.
A Kerala Police officer informed that his questioning will commence on Friday and this will help us get more leads apart from understanding the functioning of the Islamic Research Foundation. “The court granted the same”, confirmed a senior official.
Mariam had moved to Navi Mumbai after getting married to Yahya. The police suspect that they have pledged their allegiance to the IS. She was then reportedly radicalised by the two men.
Ebin told the police Yahya and Qureshi had even tried to compel him to convert to Islam. It said that Qureshi compared all religions and claimed that Islam was superior to all other religions and allegedly told Edin that nonMuslims must be eradicated to create a world SHAD of of Islam.
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Mumbai-based Islamic Preacher Zakir Naik is under the scanner of probe agencies after it emerged that some of the Dhaka attackers were inspired by his speeches. “If any assistance is sought, IRF will provide it”, said the spokesperson.
