An IIT Guwahati student Tauseef Ali Farooqui, who pledged allegiance to ISIS and was travelling to join the Islamic terror group was detained at Assam’s Hajo on Saturday evening.
Farooqui, a final-year student of biotechnology at the IIT Guwahati pledged allegiance to the Islamic terrorist group Islamic State (IS or ISIS) through an open letter on social media.
“My first step after my repentance is to make Hijrat (emigration) toward Muslimeen (Muslims) to a region known as Islamic State-Khorasan province to pledge my allegiance to the Muslim-Leadership (Islamic State)…It is a fight between Muslimeen (those who have surrendered to Allah) and Kafireen (infidels). And the fight is in every part of the world as the world, all of it, belongs to Allah, ” he said in the open letter.
“Reference IIT Guwahati student pleading allegiance to ISIS — the said student has been detained while travelling and further lawful follow up would take place,” Director-General of Police GP Singh posted on X.
Additional Superintendent of Police (STF) Kalyan Kumar Pathak said, “After receiving an email, we got about to verify the authenticity of the contents and started an investigation.”
Pathak said the IIT Guwahati authorities were immediately contacted, who informed them that the said student had been missing since noon and his mobile phone was also switched off. He is a fourth-year student and hailed from Okhla in Delhi, he added.
Farooqui was nabbed four days after the ISIS India head Haris Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi and his associate Anurag Singh alias Rehan were arrested in Dhubri district after they had crossed over from Bangladesh. It was found that Haris is originally from Chakrata, Dehradun, and Anurag Singh from Panipat has been converted to Islam.
