Tauseef Ali Farooqui, a fourth-year Biotechnology scholar at IIT-Guwahati who was detained final week after he allegedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, was a loner and didn’t have any buddies on campus, the police stated on Friday.
Farooqui was despatched to 10 days of police custody by a Guwahati court docket on Friday. The police additionally took him to his hostel room the place police recovered a black flag much like the Islamic State flag, together with a manuscript.
Further Superintendent of Police Kalyan Kumar Pathak stated, “After receiving an e-mail, we verified the authenticity of the contents and began an investigation.”
Within the e-mail and on social media, Farooqui had claimed that he intended to visit Khorasan to affix the Islamic State.
In response to police sources, a look-out alert was issued for Farooqui, who’s a resident of Delhi, after he wrote an open letter on LinkedIn stating the rationale for his choice.
When police contacted the IIT-Guwahati authorities, they stated that the scholar had been “lacking’ and his cell phone had been switched off.
Farooqui was present in Hajo, round 30 km from Guwahati, on March 23 and was detained for interrogation.
Farooqui’s dad and mom dwell in Delhi’s Zakir Nagar. After he was detained, they left for Guwahati.
His neighbours stated Farooqui is a really brilliant scholar and cleared the IIT examination on his first try. He’s a fourth-year scholar of biotechnology at IIT-Guwahati.
