Guwahati, Mar 24: Close on the heels of the arrests of ISIS chief Harish Farooqi by Assam STF in Assam’s Dhubri , now a fourth year student of Biotechnology at IIT Guwahati has been detained after he created a sensation when he stated in a social media platform that he joined terror outfit, ISIS, and went missing from IIT Guwahati campus.
Tauseef Ali Farooqui after joining the terrorist organization wrote an open letter on LinkedIn stating the reason for his decision.
According to police sources, a look out alert was issued, Farooqi, who is a resident of Zakirnagar, Okhla, New Delhi, was found from Hajo in Kamrup district.
He has been detained for interrogation. STF sources added that he was taken to his hostel room where cops have recovered a black flag similar to ISIS flag, Islamic manuscript. Police added that he was a loner and did not have friends in the campus and used to remain very reserve.
The head of ISIS in India, Haris Farooqi, who has been active since 2019, was arrested along with his associates on Wednesday by the Assam police. His associate Anurag Singh alias Rehan belongs to Panipat and converted to Islam while his wife is a Bangladeshi national. Farooqi was suspected to be hiding in Bangladesh and carried out radicalisation of gullible Indian youths.
Farooqi has been instrumental in setting up modules in Jharkhand, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Farooqui, who hails from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, was wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
