When a 'Decent and Unassuming' Tenant Turned Out to be Terror Suspect
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When a 'Decent and Unassuming' Tenant Turned Out to be Terror Suspect

News 18  

On Wednesday morning, when a police vehicle arrived in front of house #27/57, 8th A main road, New Gurappanapalya, the building owner looked spooked. The man who was with the police was his tenant of six years, Ahamed Abdul Cader, whom he knew as a “quiet, unassuming and peaceful man working in the nearby MNC”. Cader, 40, a native of Ramanathpuram, Tamil Nadu, and Irfan Nasir, 33, a resident of Frazer Town, were arrested on Wednesday in connection with a case about a Bengaluru-based ISIS module. Cader promised to vacate in two days, but by then we saw him being taken away by the police,” says Tabassum, pointing at the half-opened boxes at Cader’s house, through the window. Based on this, NIA registered a case against Cader and Nasir for having affiliation with the banned terrorist organization ISIS/ISIL/Daesh; for entering into a conspiracy to radicalize and motivate Muslim youth of Bengaluru to join ISIS, and for raising funds to facilitate their travel to Syria,” said the NIA in a release.

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