BENGALURU: NIA arrested a key member of Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT), Aziz Ahmed alias Jaleel Aziz Ahmed of Tamil Nadu, at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport Friday night, shortly before he was to board a flight. Ahmed was involved in attempts to radicalise youth to establish an Islamic caliphate in India. Officials said he was going abroad to escape the NIA probe.
The case was filed earlier this year against six accused, influenced by the ideology of Hizb-ut-Tahrir – an international pan-Islamist and fundamentalist group that wants to establish an Islamic caliphate and enforce the constitution written by HuT founder Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani.The six accused were arrested by Chennai Police under UAPA in May.
NIA said Ahmed had conducted secret ‘bayaan’ classes to indoctrinate the youth into the ideology of HuT, “which seeks military assistance from forces inimical to India to achieve its nefarious goal”.