Lashkar’s Tania Parveen arrested in Bengal was part of 70 Jihadi online groups
New Delhi, Sep 11: Tania Parveen who was arrested in West Bengal in connection with a Lashkar-e-Tayiba module case was part of 70 Jihadi groups on the social media, the National Investigation Agency has said.
Tania, a resident of District North 24 Parganas, West Bengal had converted to Islam after being radicalised. She was arrested by the West Bengal police, following which the NIA took over the investigation.
She was a college student and got radicalised in the cyberspace by Pakistan based cadres of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
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Tania, gradually became part of about 70 jihadi groups on social media, which propagated terrorist ideology advocating skewed version of Islamic Jihad with an aim to further radicalise and recruit impressionable Muslim youth, the NIA said in its chargesheet.
The accused was also active in various Palestinian and Syrian Jihadi social media groups. Investigation further revealed that the LeT cadres based in Lahore, Pakistan had introduced the accused to the officials of Pak Intelligence Agency, ISI, who tasked her to open fake Facebook profile and befriend Armed Force members in India to obtain sensitive strategic information.
NIA officials said that she was using a WhatsApp number of Pakistan. She was also part of several groups and had many accounts on social media sites.
he
police
said
that
she
was
trying
to
honey
trap
Indian
soldiers
in
lieu
of
information
about
the
Indian
Army.
The
investigation
conducted
by
the
police
managed
to
establish
her
direct
connection
with
the
Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
She
was
using
the
dark
web
to
interact
with
the
soldiers.
She
is
a
first
year
student
of
masters' degree
and
she
was
arrested
on
March
17
from
her
house
at
the
Malayapur
village,
which
is
on
the
Bangladesh
border.
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The police found that she was in the process of befriending Indian soldiers. She was trying to honey trap them. However, she had not succeeded.