ISIS module: Eight suspects grilled for 11 hours by NIA sleuths, let off

HYDERABAD: A day after National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted searches at several locations in the Old City, eight alleged ISIS sympathisers appeared before NIA sleuths on Tuesday and faced a volley of questions about their links to the proscribed outfit’s Abu Dhabi module. After over 11 hours of intense grilling, they were let off around 9.30pm, but directed to appear for questioning again on Wednesday.
Around 10am, the eight suspects landed at the NIA office, Begumpet.Around noon, Abdul Qadeer’s father Mohammed Abdul Quddus came out of the NIA office to have lunch. When waiting media personnel questioned him about the happenings at the NIA office, Quddus said they questioned him about his telephone calls to Pakistan.
“My maternal aunt lives in Pakistan. There is a marriage in her house and we were invited for the event. My family is making arrangements to go to Pakistan to attend the marriage. In this connection, some documents were exchanged between the two families for the visa. I told the investigators about it. We have done nothing wrong,’’ Qadeer told the waiting media personnel before walking back to the NIA office. Seven youngsters, however, were not allowed to come out of the NIA office till late in the night.