Women in Pune were in contact with the Terrorist Association via Social Media

Women in Pune were in contact with the Terrorist Association via Social Media was de-radicalized three times

A 20-year-old Pune woman, who wanted to be a suicide bomber, was fired twice in three years by Indian intelligence companies, but continued to return to jihadist teachings, according to a National Investigation paper. Institute (NIA).

Sadiya Anwar Shaikh, a resident of Jerwada in Pune, was re-cleansed in 2015 and again in 2018, at a young age, the organization said in its paper, filed in the first week of September. He was arrested in July on a charge of conspiracy linked to the Islamic State (IS) after a second attempt to escape recklessness failed.

According to the indictment, he has been in contact with terrorists from various groups such as Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), Islamic State in Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK), al Qaeda, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH) in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, among other countries, on social media since 2015.

He was also in contact with an IS "key online activator" from the Philippines, Karen Aisha Hamidon, who radically changed many Indian youth. NIA officials even went to Manila in April 2018 and questioned Hamidon.

Sadiya was under the radar of intelligence agencies in 2015, when she was only 15, with strong content on her Facebook account. One of his motivations was to seek out a Muslim preacher, Dr. Zakir Naik, who is hiding in Malaysia, according to the indictment.

He said the Pune Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) had tried to kill him and left him alone. However, he has also created many fraudulent accounts on Facebook and other social media platforms. Later, in January 2018, he went to Kashmir and was examined by Jammu and Kashmir police. He was sent to his mother a charge sheet.

He said he had once asked Jahanzaib Sami (listed in the paper with him) if he could get a suicide vest in Pune. He also learned how to make an IED (an improvised explosive device) using picric acid. A source informed that he had to confront ISIS along with get support in the form of a suicide bomber

In one case, a NIA charger said, it even asked one of its IS contacts if it could test the possibility of using a coronavirus to cause significant damage in India.  Main motto was to destroy the country in this pandemic as NIA informed

A senior anti-terrorism official, who did not want to be named, said: “It was the intention of its party to know whether they could spread the virus by sending infected people to densely populated areas or otherwise. There was no implementation of this program. ”

Professor David Stadelmann of the University of Bayreuth (Germany), an expert on terrorism, told HT that terrorist groups had been discussing environmental attacks in the past. "While deliberate attempts to infect people with corona can be intimidating, it is not clear how the planned transmission of this virus will work because people become infected with the virus," he said.