National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet against six alleged sympathisers of Islamic State (IS) in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, reports Hindustan Times on February 26. The agency has filed a charge sheet against Mohamed Ashiq A, Ismail S, Samsudeen, Mohammed Salauddin S, Jafar Shadik Ali and Shahul Hameed before special court in Chennai. According to NIA spokesperson, these members were part of a criminal conspiracy to target “Hindu leaders/ activists at Coimbatore” who are critical of the ISIS and of religious terrorism. Ashiq, Ismail, Samsudeen, Mohammed Salauddin, Shadik were arrested on September 1, 2018 from Coimbatore. An NIA official also stated that ‘NIA investigation has revealed that the arrested accused persons had got radicalized on the violent extremist ideology of the proscribed terrorist organization ISIS/ Daish and they had been propagating the same ideology over the social media’.