Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): Sleuths from the National Investigation Agency have procured vital information about accused Basit Kalam Siddiqui, who was arrested from the Khajuri area of Varanasi, on charges of recruiting Muslim youths for the organisation 'Voice of Hind', a terror module affiliated to ISIS. Basit was preparing for an engineering entrance exam online from a Kota-based institute in Rajasthan. In the meantime, during the Lockdown he was attracted towards the ISIS ideology.
Basit was arrested by the NIA team from his Varanasi house located in the Khajuri area late on Tuesday night. His father and brother were also taken into custody by the NIA team, but later on, they were released after questioning. The preliminary investigation conducted by the NIA revealed that the arrested youth was preparing for the engineering entrance exam from a Kota-based coaching institute in Rajasthan through online while staying at his home in Varanasi.
