Be here, raise an ISIS module, Hyderabad operative was told

His conversations came under the radar of the Intelligence Bureau.

Stay back here and carry out activities in the name of the Islamic State, the Hyderabad based ISIS suspect was told by his handler. On Friday, the police arrested Konakalla Subramanyam alias Omer on the charge that he was in touch with a Mumbai based handler Abu Qahafa al-Hindi.

Investigations have revealed that he was in touch with the handler for several months now. He had sought details from al-Hindi on how to travel to Syria and join the ISIS. However he was told that he should stay on in India and instead raise a module.

Investigations have further revealed that he was told to post on the social media. He was added to two defunct groups of the ISIS. During the interrogation, he told the police that he was instructed to revive these pages on the social media. He said that he would post likes on the page and also invite others to join the site.

It is however not clear whether Omer had any accomplices in Hyderabad. An investigating officer informed OneIndia that he was only in touch with the handler in Mumbai. It does not appear as though he had any accomplices in Hyderabad. He was in the process of raising an online module, the officer also said.

Omer had embraced Islam in 2014. Konakalla Subramanyam alias Omer was on Friday arrested by the Hyderabad police from Tolichowki. The preliminary investigation showed that he was in touch with a person named Abu Qahafa al-Hindi.

The police are detailing his journey into the ISIS. A native of Challapalli in Krishna district Omer stopped living with his parents after he converted to Islam. With the help of his friends he moved to Tolichowki.

In Hyderabad, he set up a juice shop and earned his living. Booked now for criminal conspiracy and sedition, Omer is alleged to have come in touch with some elements in Hyderabad following which he is alleged to have been drawn towards the ideology of the ISIS.

His conversations came under the radar of the Intelligence Bureau. He would chat with Abu Qahafa, an ISIS handler believed to be in Mumbai. He is alleged to have shown a lot of interest in the ideology of the group headed by Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi.

While detailing his journey into the ISIS, an officer attached to the investigation said that after embracing Islam, he visited Gujarat where he trained in religious rituals. He is also said to have visited Srinagar. However the police suspect that he may have come in contact with Qahafa during a visit to Mumbai in 2016.
The police say that he was planning on carrying out subversive activities.

He was in touch with ISIS sympathisers through Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and was in contact with a man named Abu Qahafa Al-Hindi, a Mumbai-based ISIS sympathiser. Our investigation revealed that Omer wanted to carry out subversive activities in the country, the preliminary probe has revealed.

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