NIA interrogates Indian who joined ISIS in Iraq, returned to Kalyan today

November 28, 2014 15:21

Kalyan youth Arif Majeed, suspected to have joined ISIS in Syria, returns to Mumbai; interrogation by NIA underway, says the police.

Majeed, one of the four youngsters from Kalyan who joined the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), returned to Mumbai via Turkey on Friday morning.

Four young men from Kalyan, a town near Mumbai, who were reported missing by their parents, had joined the ISIS in Iraq in June. They made their way to Fajullah, a city located 69 km from the Iraqi capital Baghdad, according to inputs shared between Indian and Iraqi intelligence.

Sources in Indian intelligence say there is no clarity on the role of the young men from Kalyan -- Arif Majeed, Fahad Sheikh, Aman Tandel and Shaheen Tanki -- in the ISIS.

Arif who was earlier thought to have been killed in an air strike, was alive and had called his father, Dr Ijaz Majeed, seeking his help to return from Turkey.

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