'ISIS recruit' decided to return after being injured: NIA

May 20, 2015 19:43

The National Investigation Agency today told a court here that the arrested ISIS `recruit' Arif Majeed wanted to "sneak" back into India after he got injured while fighting in Iraq but was nabbed on arrival in Mumbai.

NIA said this in its 8,000-page charge sheet running into seven volumes filed against the 23-year-old Majeed, who hails from neighbouring Kalyan township, in the court of special NIA judge Y D Shinde.

"Between August and October 2014 he sustained injuries three times, twice bullet injuries and once by American strike," reads the charge sheet. At this point he decided to return to India, it says.

In November 2014, he approached the Indian embassy in Turkey, saying he had lost his passport. The embassy issued him an `emergency certificate'.

"He tried to sneak into India and boarded a Turkish Airlines flight, but was arrested (on landing) in Mumbai," the NIA has said.

Majeed returned to Mumbai on November 28 last year,following which he was detained and subsequently arrested.

Before heading for Iraq, Majeed had downloaded some videos from social networking sites to know more about ISIS.He also started contacting people through social networking websites, and in the process came in contact with three other youths from Kalyan (who are still missing).

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