On February 10, National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested four persons, identified as Jameel Basha, Maulvi Hussain Faizy, Irshath and Syed Abdur Rahman Umari from Tamil Nadu in connection with Islamic State (IS) radicalisation and recruitment case, reports The Free Press Journal. The searches led to the seizure of a large number of electronic devices, material objects and documents. These included six laptops, 25 mobile phones, 34 SIM cards, six SD cards, three hard discs. Raids were conducted at 11 locations associated with Madras Arabic College / Kovai Arabic College in connection with the radicalisation case, which involved individuals engaged in clandestine radicalisation of gullible youth in the garb of Arabic language classes through preaching of radical ideologies and promotion of violent Jihad at their Regional Study Centres in Tamil Nadu. Besides the Arabic classes, the radicalisation took place online, through social media platforms and mobile applications, such as WhatsApp and Telegram. The IS operatives were using the classes and the social media to impart radical sermons to propagate Khilafat and IS ideologies inimical to India’s constitutionally established principles of secularism, democracy etc.