Indian authorities sentence two Daesh fundraisers to seven years in prison

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017 3:49:50 by

Two Indian men accused of raising funds and recruiting for Islamic State (IS) also known as Daesh, were sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday by the Indian authorities.

The two accused have been identified as Azhar-ul-Islam and Mohammad Farhan Shaikh, who had been carrying out these activities for the IS for the past few years. They were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) last year after being deported from the United Arab Emirates for illegal fundraising activities. The two were already in prison and were just awaiting the verdict on their case.

“Both of them were already in jail, and were today sentenced to seven years in prison by the court,” Alok Mittal, an inspector general at the NIA, told AFP.

Both Islam and Shaikh are in their mid-twenties and they pleaded guilty to charges of criminal conspiracy last month “without any pressure, threat, coercion or undue influence” according to the Press Trust of India.

According to the details provided by the NIA, the duo had acted as a front group for the IS and incited people of different nationalities to travel to Syria to “join and support” the activities of the group.

Both these men used social media networks like Facebook, Whatsapp and Skype to promote the IS ideology and enlist new recruits. People who wanted to link up to the IS directly were also helped by Islam and Shaikh.

Fundraising activities were also carried out by these men. “They had also raised, collected and received funds in the UAE and transferred it to their associates in India, Philippines and Tunisia to facilitate their travel to Syria to join Daesh,” the NIA said in the statement.

Even though Daesh does not have a strong hold in India, authorities are still vigilant and nationwide raids were also conducted to root out any Daesh supporters or terrorists.

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