In a shocking and major breakthrough in the ISIS Maharashtra module case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 27 arrested another person – this time a practicing postgraduate doctor named Adnanali Sarkar, following raids from Kondhwa, Pune.
The NIA – in its search at the residence of 43-year-old Dr Adnanali Sarkar, has found several incriminating materials such as electronic gadgets, and several documents related to ISIS – a banned terror outfit.
NIA ARRESTS 1 MORE IN MAHARASHTRA ISIS MODULE CASE, TOTAL ARRESTS GO UPTO 5 pic.twitter.com/0aBboS0wYW
— NIA India (@NIA_India) July 27, 2023
Several netizens on Twitter have expressed shock over the revelation of the doctor who worked as an anaesthesiologist at Nobel Hospital, Hadapsar.
The saffron flag of the Marathas flew high on the city of Pune for almost 2 centuries. Even under the British rule, Pune was the city where nationalist ideology thrived. From Lokmanya Tilak, to Chapekar brothers to Veer Savarkar, it was the city of Pune that nurtured these great… pic.twitter.com/5IBbMaQOfA
— Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 (@ShefVaidya) July 28, 2023
“NIA has arrested multiple people from Maharashtra on the charges of planning, aiding and abetting Islamic terror. The people arrested from Pune are not ‘illiterate, impoverished, hot-headed youth’, as the apologists of Islamic terror will tell you. They are middle-aged educated professionals who lived and worked amongst us like model citizens. They are doctors, engineers, all earning well,” tweets social activist Shefali Vaidya.
Dr Adnanali Qamarali Sarkar is said to have completed his MBBS in 2001 from BJ Medical College in Pune and MD in Anaesthesiology in 2006 from the same government-run institution.
ये डॉक्टर अदनान अली है।
16 साल से एनेस्थीसिया का डॉक्टर है , पुणे में रहता था।
कई किताबों में इसके लेख छप चुके हैं।
लेकिन अब ये आतंकवादी निकला।
ISIS के लिए भारत में भर्तियां करता था और फण्ड जुटाता था।
NIA ने इसे पुणे से गिरफ्तार किया है। pic.twitter.com/kDu73BHU2P
— Panchjanya (@epanchjanya) July 28, 2023
NIA had registered a case on 28th June and on July 3, following extensive raids by the NIA in Mumbai, Thane, and Pune – the agency had arrested Tabish Nasser Siddiqui from Nagpada in Mumbai, Zubair Noor Mohammed Shaikh alias Abu Nusaiba from Kondhwa in Pune, and Sharjeel Shaikh and Zulfikar Ali Barodawala from Padgha in Thane.
As per a report in the Indian Express – that cites sources for the information – Sarkar allegedly has “close links” to Zubair Shaikh alias Abu Abu Nusaiba, a jobless IT engineer hunting for a job for the last 3 years.
The accused were apparently also working on ‘Do it Yourself’ (DIY) kits to craft out Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and manufacturing small weapons, pistols, etc.
The agency also says that the accused were also working on the directions of foreign handlers of ISIS and had readied some inflammatory media content, which was published in the magazine ‘Voice of Hind’, in furtherance of the banned outfit’s agenda of terror and violence.
The NIA on July 3 had arrested Zubair Noor Mohammed Shaikh but it was also the Pune city police who did exemplary work when on July 18, the Kothrud police arrested Mohammad Imran Mohammad Yunus Khan and Mohammad Yunus Mohammad Yakub Saki, hailing from Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh (MP), during night patrolling. The third suspect, identified as Mohammed Shahnawaz Shafiurrehman Alam, managed to escape while the trio was brought to their Kondhwa flat for address verification in the bike theft case.
The Pune cops had found that it was found that the Mithanagar flat owner had not carried out police verification of the three tenants, reports Hindustan Times. Had he done that, the central database of police departments across India would have shown that the trio was being probed on allegations of links to ISIS-inspired organisation Sufa and under the radar of NIA for their involvement in allegedly hatching a bomb blast conspiracy in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
After the preliminary investigation, the Pune city police handed over the case to ATS.
And now NIA has arrested a total of 5 accused in the ISIS recruitment case.
