The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested one Dr. Adnanali Sarkar for working for the lslamic terror outfit ISIS. Dr. Adnanali Sarkar (43) is a resident of Kondhwa and a consulting anaesthetist at a top private hospital in Pune. He was arrested following raids in Kondhwa, Pune.
“The NIA seized several incriminating materials, such as electronic gadgets and several documents related to the ISIS, during searches at Sarkar’s Kondhwa house. The material exposed the accused’s allegiance with the ISIS and his role in promoting the outfit’s violent agenda by motivating and recruiting vulnerable youth,” the NIA said in a statement.
“The accused had hatched a conspiracy to further ISIS terrorist activities… Sarkar was trying to disturb the unity, integrity, security, and sovereignty of the country, and wage a war against the Government of India as part of the ISIS conspiracy through the organisation’s Maharashtra ISIS module,” the statement added.
This is the fifth arrest in the Maharashtra ISIS module case, which the NIA had registered on June 28, 2023.
Earlier on July 3, following extensive raids by the NIA in Mumbai, Thane, and Pune, the agency had arrested Tabish Nasser Siddiqui from Mumbai, Zubair Noor Mohammed Shaikh alias Abu Nusaiba from Pune, and Sharjeel Shaikh and Zulfikar Ali Barod-awala from Thane.
