- Suspected ISIS member Mohamed Naser, arrested on charges of motivating people to join the terror group, wrote to his family from Sudan saying he was “comfortable” after joining the outfit and also invited them to join him, the NIA said in a chargesheet filed on Friday.
- Naser, 23, belongs to Thanjavur. According to NIA, Naser’s father – the prosecution witness in the case – confirmed that his son, had joined the IS. In a letter to his father, he claimed that life was wonderful in Syria and what the news showed was propaganda.
- NIA said Naser went to Dubai in October 2014 and joined an IT company as web developer and global designer. He disclosed his desire to join the ISIS to one of his friends in Dubai.
- Naser then came across an IS sympathiser on Twitter and on his instruction, he joined a Whatsapp group to get news updates and opinions about the ISIS. On 25 September 2015, Naser left for Sudan to join the banned terror group.
(With inputs from IANS.)
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