Six more people belonging to PFI from Kannur join IS: Kerala Police

Kannur, November 3: Kerala Police confirmed about six more youth joining ISIS in Syria. Also the police confirmed that these people belonged to Popular Front of India (PFI) in Kerala. The PFI activists, who are suspected to have joined ISIS, identified are Abdul Qayoom, Abdul Manaf, Shabeer, Suhail and his wife Rizwana, Safwan.

Police also said the families of four of them are in Syria, and efforts are on to get their complete details. Also the PFI has been under the National Investigation Agency NIA’s investigation for brainwashing Hindu Women and marrying them to Muslim men.

Abdul Qayoom went to Syria on April 18, 2017, while Abdul Manaf travelled using a fake passport, said police. Moreover, he was a close associate of Shahjahan Velluva, another IS operative who was arrested in Delhi a few months ago. When Shahjahan and his group reached Istanbul in an effort to sneak in to Syria, Manaf had met them, but the group could not coordinate and their bid to enter Syria failed, and they were deported. Suhail reached Syria from Dubai in 2016, said police.

Earlier three youths were arrested who left the country to join ISIS, left for training were arrested by Kerala Police.

Prior to this 23-year-old Najeeb, a MTech student at VIT Vellore went missing, Kerala Police suspected him of joining in ISIS. Also the NIA has been probing cases of disappearance of at least 21 people who had left Kerala under mysterious circumstances over a period of time and are suspected to have joined the ISIS.