Suspected Islamic State (IS) operative, Areeb Majeed who was arrested in November 2014 for having travelled to Iraq and then Syria to join the global terrorist outfit granted bail by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on March 17, reports The Hindu. Majeed along with Fahad Shaikh, Shaheem Tanki and Aman Tandel had left India for Iraq under the guise of pilgrimage in May 2014 and joined the IS. All of them later went to Syria, where the other three are believed to have been killed, while Majeed came back to India via Turkey in November 2014. Earlier, he had moved a bail plea before the Bombay High Court after it was rejected by the special NIA court. The NIA in its chargesheet against Majeed who had been in NIA custody since last five years had claimed that the suspect had participated in several attacks perpetrated by IS, and had sustained bullet injuries on two occasions, and was seriously injured in a bombing following which he had decided to return to India.