The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in relation with terror-related and Bengaluru East arson cases has arrested seven men from Karnataka since August this year. Of the seven, five are from Bengaluru and one from Tamil Nadu and the last from Uttara Kannada. The person from Tamil Nadu was working in the City. Two of the arrested are highly qualified doctors Dr Sabeel Ahmed and Dr Abdur Rehman.

The third, Abdul Ahmad Cader of Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu, is a business analyst. Most people are arrested in relation with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) recruitment case, few in relation to East Bengaluru riots, two reportedly owed allegiance to Hizb-ut-Tehrir (HT) or ‘the Party of the Liberation,’ a radical Islamist organisation founded in 1953 in East Jerusalem by a radical activist Muhammad Sheikh Taqiuddin-al-Nabhani from Haifa (Jordan).

To be noted, this was the first time HT had found mention in a terror-related investigation in India. In July, the National Investigation Agency had filed a chargesheet against 17 people in connection with the ISIS Karnataka module case, initiated by Mehboob Pasha of Bengaluru. Most of them are from the City. Two are from Kolar in Karnataka, and the rest are from Tamil Nadu.

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