NIA books 9 people for forcibly converting 25 year old woman and threatening her to join IS

New Delhi, January 31: While a number of women are falling prey to the ‘Islamic Radicalization’ which is happening under the umbrella of love, religion, marriages and many more reasons. Another shocking case revealed after National Investigating Agency NIA booked 9 people from Kerala and Bengaluru for forcibly converting a woman from Gujarat to Islam and attempting to sell her off to Islamic State IS in Saudi Arabia. 

The Gujarat woman lodged a complaint after which the binoculars of NIA got alert to keep a necessary track on the accused people. NIA spokesman said in a statement that the case was registered against following a complaint from the 25-year-old woman. She also said that she was forced and raped and threatened harshly to become the disciple of Zakir Naik.

“She alleged that Muhammed Riyas Rasheed had lured her and taken objectionable pictures of her, besides illegally confining her. The accused married her through deceit by forging documents and “forcibly converted her to Islam. Rasheed, illegally confined and threatened the woman in Kerala before taking her to Jeddah in August 2017 for joining the IS,” NIA’s statement said.

Besides Rasheed, Nahas Abdulkhader and Abdul Muhasin K of Kannur (Kerala); Muhammed Nazish T K of Perigadi; Danish Najeeb, Gazila, Moin Patel and Iliyas Mohammed of Bengaluru; and Fawas Jamal of Peruvaram have been named in the FIR.

A 25-year-old woman also accused Rasheed of raping her, recording her objectionable videos on phone and threatening her to become the disciple of televangelist Zakir Naik. The investigation so far done by state police revealed that the accused further received funds for all such activities, an NIA official said.

Meanwhile, the case was filed for criminal conspiracy and pursuant unlawful activities prejudicial to the maintenance of communal harmony besides wrongful confinement, extortion, rape, forgery and forceful religious conversion with the common intention of recruitment to the terrorist organisation IS.