The alleged woman ISIS recruiter from Hyderabad, Afsha Jabeen, has reportedly confessed to working with Salman Mohiuddin.
According to reports, Jabeen used to propagate Islam on her Facebook page and had attempted to lure Indian Muslim youth to join ISIS. She, in her confession, told the police that she first met Salman through Facebook in 2010.
Afsha said, "In an online post, I wrote Ali without a suffix RZ and Salman corrected me. I got introduced to Salman's YouTube channel and started liking him. I shared my social media IDs with him and we regularly used to share our views on various issues related to Islamic State," a leading daily reported.
On January 16 this year, Mohiuddin, 32, a US-returned Hyderabadi on his way to Turkey to join ISIS, was arrested by the Cyberabad police at the international airport for allegedly trying to leave the country to join the terror group, the police said.
After his arrest, Afsha came under the lens of Indian security agencies since Salman confessed during questioning to have opened several Facebook accounts along with one 'Nicky Joseph', a British national living in Dubai. He had said that she had influenced and invited him to join her in Dubai in order to go to Syria. Both of them allegedly indoctrinated and motivated several youth via social media to support ISIS, the police had said.
Afsha Jabeen alias 'Nicky Joseph' (37), who hails from Tolichowki area but portrayed herself as a British national while luring youth for ISIS through social media, was deported by the UAE after which she was arrested here on September 11. She was subsequentally produced before a court which sent her to 14-days judicial remand on September 12. She is lodged in the Chanchalguda prison.
