ISIS recruit Arif Majeed to undergo narco test - Times of India

MUMBAI: The security agency interrogating the 23 year old ISIS recruit Arif Majeed who returned to India on Friday does not believe him completely and hence want to conduct the scientific test like narco and lie detection test on him to get to the bottom of the truth. Arif told interrogators that though he went to take part in the war for jihad, he actually could not participate as he was injured and was made to do civil work. While Arif worked for a civil contract company, his friend Shamim Tanki was asked to do office work. ''We suspect that whatever he is telling is subjective and we have to carefully take his version like pinch of salt. And the only way to extract truth is the scientific tests.''said an officer. ATS officials who are also keeping itself update on his interrogation said that Arif may also be lying that he got accidentally got bullet injuries.

Sources in the National Investigating Agency (NIA) said that though Arif claims that he is repenting over his decision for joining ISIS, they does not believe him completely. '' We want to know minutes details ranging from indoctrination to recruitment, how and where he got bullet injuries and what compelled him to return.''said an officer. Arif told police that he and his friends were indoctrination through internet chat room. A man on the facebook is believed to have given Arif a contact in Mosul in Iraq and was told to contact that person only after reaching Iraq.

The three other youths -all in their twenties -who left their Kalyan homes with Majeed to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, were also reportedly indoctrinated through chat rooms. Majeed, who was arrested on Friday and booked under the anti-terror law and for waging war against a friendly Asian country, was produced before the notified National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in south Mumbai on Saturday and remanded in police custody till December 8.

Arif told police that he seperated from his three friends shaheem Tanki, Fahad Shah and Aman Tandel around two months ago when he was injured badly in Mosul. It was here that his handlers admitted him in a hospital and he lost contact with his three accomplices. And after not finding Arif in the group, trio thought he may have died and hence, one of them called up Arif family and informed about his death. Arif who does not have any remorse on his course of action said that while being admitted in the hospital he was totally ignored which prompted him to return to India. Arif said that till while he was leaving for Turkey, he had no clues of his three friends but he says that he feels that they may be safe as the handlers never allowed them to participate in the war.

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