Latest news with #KabeerAhmedAliya

Time of India

NIA charges 3 HuT operatives with plotting to promote outfit's ideology

(You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday said it had chargesheeted three members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) in a conspiracy to propagate the banned terrorist group's ideology and raise funds for promoting its agency said the three - Kabeer Ahmed Aliya, Aziz Ahamed and Bava Bahrudeen - had been charged under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. It said the accused had entered into a criminal conspiracy with HuT office-bearers to establish an Islamic Caliphate in India by seeking military assistance from forces inimical to India, and enforce the constitution written by HuT's founder, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani. Investigation revealed that the trio had also planned to secure support from the Pakistan Army through Haj and Umrah travellers, according to the accused were engaged in recruiting vulnerable youths to the secret classes of the HuT and were radicalised into the ideology of the international pan-Islamist group, which was banned, along with all its manifestations and front organisations, by India in October NIA said in a statement that the accused had also organised an exhibition showcasing the military might of Islamic nations such as Iran, Turkiye, Egypt and Pakistan, with the intention of inviting them to overthrow the lawfully established government of India through violent jihad and war.