ISIS Conspiracy Case: Accused’s Close Assistance Saquib Nachan and Kashif Bellare Expose Links to Radicalization and Terrorist Recruitment

The suspect in the ISIS terror module case, Kashif Bellare, was heavily radicalized. He was a close confidant of co-accused Saquib Nachan. Sources claim that Kashif Bellare managed Saqib Nachan’s business dealings while acting as his personal assistant. For the task, Nachan gave him a salary of Rs 25,000 per month. Bellare and Nachan had been connected since 2002, and their relationship persisted until their arrests in the ISIS terror module case in 2023.

Operations related to terrorism

As the current questioning has shown, Bellare was not only handling Nachan’s money affairs but was also closely involved in his terror activities. Bellare said that anyone pursuing jihad for religious reasons need not be concerned about being apprehended by any law enforcement authorities in the course of the inquiry into the ISIS terror module and Nachan’s participation. During the questioning, he said that even though Saquib Nachan knew that his son and his family would be destroyed, he determined that his son shouldn’t go or hide when Shamil was involved in the ISIS Maharashtra cell case.

As to Bellare’s assertion, Nachan felt that he was selected by Rasool to fight in the jihad and he wanted to remain loyal to the cause. He thought that trying to avoid the anti-terror organizations would be equivalent to defying God’s commands. From Nachan’s point of view, Shamil was detained by the NIA because he refused to flee. He felt that the agency would not have been able to trace and capture him throughout the years if he had run away.

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It became clear during the interview that Bellare had totally been radicalized by extreme religious beliefs. He said that everyone who talks against their prophet or criticizes him deserves to die and go to hell. Bellare claims that whoever kills such a person would be rewarded with Jannat and regarded as a soldier of the Prophet.

Sources claim that over the course of the inquiry, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) discovered that Bellare had made many trips to Kerala at Saquib’s request. But Bellare deftly sidestepped questions and refused to comment on the nature or purpose of these trips to Kerala and other states throughout the questioning.

According to NIA sources, it was discovered throughout the inquiry that Bellare and Saquib Nachan were both actively engaged in brainwashing children. Saquib Nachan designated Padgha, a hamlet close to Thane, as Al-Sham land (the holy Land of Syria) in 2022. Together with Bellare, he hired young people in Padgha between the ages of 18 and 30 for tasks connected to terrorism. Some “Dars” (meetings or lectures) were held by them in remote areas of Padgha, purportedly for the purpose of religious teaching. But the real goal was to further radicalize people, as shown by Bellare’s and Nachan’s lectures on jihadists, Khilafat, and other beliefs. These events functioned as a front for recruiting new recruits to aid ISIS in its evil deeds.

preparing to carry out terrorist attacks in order to aid ISIS

It was discovered during the inquiry that the accused intended to carry out terrorist attacks in India to demonstrate their support for ISIS. The primary accomplice of Nachan, Bellare, is accused of planning all of the oath ceremonies (bath) for ISIS initiatives and of organizing “Dars.”

Despite not being cooperative during the questioning, investigators in the case said that he was in touch with young people who had been radicalized and were connected to the ISIS terror cell. It seems that he is deceiving the investigators and putting pressure on them by fabricating a story about crimes committed in the name of religion.

The agency is waiting for data to be retrieved from the phone and other digital devices that were found on him at the Forensic Science Laboratories, purportedly because of his deceptive responses.