Patna: A 28-year-old woman from Sitamarhi district in Bihar was arrested on Monday at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi when she was to leave the country with her 5-year-old son for Kabul. She was allegedly planning to join the Islamic State (IS).
NIA sources said Yasmeen Mohamed, daughter of Mahammed Zahid, a resident of village Muraul under the Bajpatti police station area in Sitamarhi district, got married to a man from Sitamarhi. She was arrested with the passport number N 692008. The man she was first married to was a scholar in Arabic and both of them were teachers by profession. They went to Kerala as teachers with the Peace International School where she fought with him and got divorced.
“She met Abdul Rashid in the same school where he used to work as manager. Rashid went missing last month. He is one among the 21 youths who went missing from Kerala last month. Rashid went to Kabul and sent her an SMS to join him there in the IS. The Peace International School is inclined to Islam. For the last one year, she has been living in Delhi along with her son and came to Bihar to meet her parents,” the NIA source said.
He said she was on her way to Afghanistan. The two were going to board a flight to Kabul, but were stopped at the emigration counter. She was handed over to Delhi Police’s special cell but, later, a Kerala police team took her taken into custody. She has been sent to judicial custody by a Kerala court. She told the police that she went to Delhi a few days back from Patna.
Patna SSP Manu Maharaaj said, “We have not got any copy or information regarding her lookout notice issued by the Kerala police against her.”
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