On August 17, an ophthalmologist working at Bengaluru’s M S Ramaiah Medical College, Abdur Rahman, was arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) for alleging developing a medical application for helping the injured Islamic State (IS) terrorists in the conflict-zones and a weaponry-related application for the benefit of IS fighters, reports The Hindustan Times. In a statement issued on August 18, NIA stated that Abdur Rahman was arrested in connection with the agency’s probe against a Kashmiri couple - Jahanzaib Sami Wani and Hina Bashir Beigh, arrested from Jamia Nagar in Delhi in March 2020. NIA had already arrested ‘two more accused - Sadiya Anwar Sheikh and Nabeel Siddick Khatri from Pune for being part of the conspiracy to further the activities of ISIS/ISKP in India and to carry out subversive activities in the garb of anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests. Rahman during interrogation confessed to conspiring with accused Jahanzaib Sami and other Syria-based ISIS operatives on secure messaging platforms to further IS activities. Significantly, he 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. Following his arrest, NIA carried out searches at three premises belonging to Rahman in Bangalore with the assistance of Karnataka Police and seized digital devices, mobile phone, laptop containing incriminating material. Abdur Rahman will be produced before the NIA Special Court at New Delhi for his remand.