The Assam Police has detained Tauseef Ali Farooqui, a final-year scholar of biotechnology on the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G), who “pledged allegiance to terrorist group Islamic State (IS or ISIS)” through an open letter on social media.

Kalyan Kumar Pathak, additional superintendent of police of the Special Task Force (STF), in a press conference late on Saturday, said: “The Assam Special Task Force has detained IIT-G student Tauseef Ali Farooqui who claimed to have joined the ISIS. The particular student had gone missing since this morning. He had sent mails and posts on social media about his wish to join the ISIS. We traced him to Hajo of Kamrup district in Assam.”

“Tauseef didn’t have too many associates on the campus and principally stayed indoors in his hostel. There are sure issues we now have recovered from his room. Among them is a black flag, suspected to be an ISIS flag, and some manuscripts of his faith. He is being interrogated. We have despatched the recovered objects for forensic examination,” Pathak stated.

STARTLING LETTER ON LINKEDIN

In ‘An Open Letter’ on LinkedIn posted on Saturday, Farooqui “disassociated” himself from the “Indian-Construct that features the so-called Indian Constitution, its establishments and so forth”.

“My first step after my repentance is to make Hijrat (emigration) toward Muslimeen (Muslims) to a region known as Islamic State-Khorasan province to pledge my allegiance to the Muslim-Leadership (Islamic State)…It is a fight between Muslimeen (those who have surrendered to Allah) and Kafireen (infidels)…,” the letter acknowledged.

RECENT ARRESTS

The STF not too long ago caught two leaders related to ISIS in India — Haris Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi and Anurag Singh alias Rehan. Both have been intercepted within the Dharamshala of Dhubri close to the worldwide border.

It was discovered that Haris, initially from Chakrata, Dehradun, is the pinnacle of ISIS in India, and Anurag Singh from Panipat has been transformed to Islam.

Partha Sarathi Mahanta, DIGP of STF, stated, “Both of them are deeply indoctrinated members of the ISIS and have been concerned in varied unlawful actions, together with recruitment, terror funding and plotting assaults throughout India utilizing improvised explosive gadgets (IEDs).”

The duo has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for additional probe.