The NIA, which has arrested 34 IS recruits till now, is also studying recent speeches of controversial preachers whose names have figured during interrogation of the arrested people. Apart from Naik, other known names whose speeches have figured in the interrogation of terrorists include UKbased Anjem Choudhury, Delhibased Abdus Sami Qasmi, Bengalurubased Maulana Anzar Shah Qasmi and young propagandist Mehdi Biswas, also from Bengaluru. Sami Qasmi and Anzar Shah Qasmi have been arrested.According to sources, Delhi Police had recovered Naik's speeches from the laptops of IM terrorists after the Batla House encounter. In fact, IM's Pakistan based operatives Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal are believed to have listened to Naik's speeches. "The jihadi literature recovered from Indian Mujahideen, AQIS and IS members in the last 910 years had speeches of various Islamic clerics," a top counterterror official said. Read less...
According to sources, Delhi Police had recovered Naik's speeches from the laptops of IM terrorists after the Batla House encounter. In fact, IM's Pakistan based operatives Riyaz and Iqbal Bhatkal are believed to have listened to Naik's speeches. "The jihadi literature recovered from Indian Mujahideen, AQIS and IS members in the last 910 years had speeches of various Islamic clerics," a top counterterror official said. Read less...
Suspicious of his activities, Police have mounted a close watch on him and some others from Andhra Pradesh who were not involved in any incident previously but were attending the meeting. Officials of the Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau (SIB), Counter Intelligence (CI), State and Central Intelligence Agencies have alerted NIA and other agencies. Police have suspicions over the agenda of the Patna meeting as participants are expected to discuss the activities of various fundamentalist organisations functioning in different States. Read less...