Lashkar member extradited from rwanda in terror case

Lashkar member extradited from rwanda in terror case

An Interpol Red Notice had been issued against the accused on August 2; according to the NIA, he was involved in the Bengaluru Central Prison ‘terror radicalisation and recruitment’ case.

The Global Operations Centre of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has coordinated with the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Interpol National Central Bureau-Kigali for securing the return of a terror case accused from Rwanda. The accused, Salman Rehman Khan, was wanted as a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative in a case registered by the NIA.

“The subject being a member of an internationally proscribed terrorist organisation LeT had assisted in providing arms, ammunition, and explosives to further terrorist activities in Bengaluru,” said the CBI.

At the instance of the NIA, the CBI had got an Interpol Red Notice issued against the accused on August 2. “The subject was subsequently geolocated in Rwanda with close assistance from the Interpol National Central Bureau-Kigali. He was returned to India on November 28 by a security team from the NIA,” the CBI said.

Terror recruitment

The NIA said the accused was involved in the “terror radicalisation and recruitment” case of Bengaluru Central Prison.

He is the 17th accused to be extradited/deported in major NIA cases since 2020.

The Red Notice proceedings against him emanated from the case registered by the NIA on October 25, 2023, after taking over the probe from the Bengaluru City Police. The NIA found that while previously imprisoned in a POCSO case, he had facilitated the collection and distribution of explosives for other terror accused after being radicalised and recruited, during his incarceration, by T. Naseer, a life convict in a terror case.