Mumbai-based businessman’s son migrates to Islamic State territory with his daughter & wife: According to the report of TOI that Ashfaque Ahmed has taken his wife and child along to west Asia and moreover two of his cousins have also joined him. The complaint alleged that religious preacher Mohammed Haneef, a school teacher from Kerala who had visited Syria along with Ashfaq, Arshid Qureshi and Rizwan Khan were behind his son’s decision to join the terrorist outfit. “Take care of mother and father”, the message read. They have found that the couple had been to Sri Lanka last March and April to attend a religious study class.
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His cousins 22-year-old Mohammed Siraj who is a businessman, and 30-year-old Ejaz Rehman, a medical practitioner, also accompanied Ashfaque. He married later the same year, but informed his family only after the wedding was over.
In the FIR, Majeed mentioned that he belonged to Barelvi sect of Islam, whereas his son was inclined towards Ahl-e-Hadees sect and converted to it in 2014.
Ever since conversion, he began exhibiting worrying changes, and stopped listening to music, watching television. Ashfaque would mostly be in the company of his cousins, Rehman and Siraj, and no one doubted their conversations. It is still not clear if Ashfaque took his wife out of India forcibly or if she went with him on her own.
“He changed his dressing style and started sporting a beard and had the family anxious”, Majeed told the police.
Blaming a Kerala-based teacher Mohammad Hanif for radicalising his son, Ashafque’s father Abdul Majeed filed an FIR.
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Police is now questioning Mohammed Haneef, a preacher to inspect his involvement in the matter. “We are going through all records and it is too early to comment”, said Sanjay Saxena, joint commissioner of police, crime branch.
