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ISIS man seeks interim bail to undergo kidney surgery

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jul 27 2017 | 8:22 PM IST
A Delhi court today sought a response from the National Investigation Agency and Tihar Central Jail authorities on the plea of an alleged ISIS member seeking interim bail for undergoing kidney surgery.
The court asked the probe agency and the jail authorities to file their response by July 31 on the application moved by Mohd Shareef Moinuddin Khan, arrested for allegedly recruiting and financing people to join the terror outfit.
The application moved through advocate M S Khan alleged that "the accused is having a stone in his kidney and despite directions, no arrangement has been made by the jail administration for his surgery".
The accused sought 15 days' interim bail for undergoing the surgery.
The NIA had filed its charge sheet before the court outlining the role of Shareef Moinuddin Khan, along with 16 other accused in a larger conspiracy of ISIS to further the terror group's ideology.
The agency had claimed that members of the banned outfit -- Islamic State (IS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), in connivance with a few resident and non-resident Indians, have been indulging in identification, radicalisation, recruitment, and training.

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The final report had alleged that some Indian youths were transferred by the accused, who are currently in judicial custody, to countries like Syria, Libya and Iraq for terror activities.
They were arrested under several sections of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Indian Penal Code (IPC). A case was registered by NIA on December 9, 2015, against unknown and unidentified persons involved in the activities of ISIS in India and other Asian countries.
The agency had filed an FIR against unknown persons on the basis of inputs received from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

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First Published: Jul 27 2017 | 8:22 PM IST

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