NIA filed chargesheet against three LeT operatives in LeT Online Recruitment Module Case
New Delhi, May 7
The NIA filed it's first supplementary chargesheet before the NIA Special Court, Kolkata in connection West Bengal LeT online recruitment module case against three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists.
The accused were identified as Tania Parveen alias Isranoor from 24 Parganas, West Bengal, Sayyad M. Idris alias Idris from Bachagamva village of Uttar Kannada district, Karnataka, Ayesha @ Ayesha Burhan from Zilla Sargoda of Province Punjab, Pakistan u/s 120B, 121A & 122 of IPC 13, 18, 20, 38 & 39 of UA (P) Act.
The case was initially registered in March 2020 at Baduria police station of District North 24 Parganas relating to arrest of Tania Parveen, a member of proscribed terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba by State Police. The NIA had re-registered the case in April 2020 and taken over the investigation. NIA had earlier filed chargesheet against accused Tania Parveen under sections 13 & 39 of UA(P) Act.
The NIA stated that accused Tania Parveen was a college student and was radicalised and recruited in cyberspace by Pakistan based cadres of LeT. She was co-admin of various social media groups espousing secessionist ideas on Kashmir with accused Ayesha Burhan a Pakistan based cadre of LeT’s Women’s wing. Tania Parveen in association with other accused members of LeT in India and Pakistan indulged in unlawful activities, radicalised, recruited and motivated other people through cyberspace for Jihad against India. She and other accused were brainwashing impressionable youth and propagating the ideology of LeT, a proscribed terrorist organization, thus conspiring to wage war against the State.
The NIA is further investigating the case to unearth the wider conspiracy in India.
