Bengaluru: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested an ophthalmologist working in a Bengaluru hospital, who was in the process of developing a medical application for helping injured ISIS cadres in conflict zones and a weaponry-related application for the benefit of ISIS fighters, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.
The accused identified as Abdul Rahman (28) and employed at the M.S. Ramaiah Medical College in Bengaluru.
A resident of Basavangudi in Bengaluru, Rahman was arrested by NIA on Monday in connection with the agency's probe in which Kashmiri couple - Jahanzaib Sami Wani and his wife Hina Bashir Beigh - from Okhla Vihar, Jamia Nagar in Delhi were arrested after it was found that they had affiliations with (Islamic State of Khorasan Province (IKSP), a banned terrorist organisation and a part of ISIS, and were found to be involved in subversive and anti-national activities.
"During interrogation, Rahman confessed that he was conspiring with Jahanzaib Sami and other Syria-based ISIS operatives on secure messaging platforms to further ISIS activities," NIA said in a statement.
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Significantly, Rahman had visited an ISIS medical camp in Syria in early 2014 for treatment of ISIS terrorists and stayed with Islamic State operatives for 10 days and returned to India, the NIA added.
"Rahman was in the process of developing a medical application for helping the injured ISIS cadres in the conflict-zones and a weaponry-related application for the benefit of ISIS fighters," the agency said.
