Karnataka (Islamist/Other Conflicts): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2022

On January 3, NIA raided the residence of BM Bashaat at Mastikatte village near Mangaluru in Uttar Kannad District of Karnataka and arrested Mundadiguttu Sadananda Marla Deepthi Marlah alias Maryam for alleged links to the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). Several documents were also seized. Read less...

On January 29, National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a in the ISIS recruitment conspiracy case in naming the kin of former Karnataka Congress MLA, late B M Idinabba along with 7 others, reports The Indian Express. NIA filed the chargesheet against Mundadiguttu Sadananda Marla Deepthi Marlah alias Maryam, Ammar Abdul Rahiman, Mohd. Waqar Lone, Mizha Siddeeque, Shifa Haris, Obaid Hamid Matta, Madesh Shankar and Muzamil Hassan Bhat. Deepthi Marlah’s husband Anas Abdul Rahiman is son of B M Basha, whose father Idinabba was a former Congress MLA. Idinabba died in 2009. Ammar Rahiman is Anas’s brother. According to NIA, “Investigation has revealed that all eight accused chargesheeted today are affiliated with…ISIS and were involved in radicalising, recruiting, organising terror funds and grooming like-minded gullible Muslim youth through different secured social media platforms to perform Hijrat to ISIS-controlled territory for joining ISIS”. During the investigation, “it has been revealed that after the decline of ISIS Caliphate in Syria/Iraq, Deepthi Marla and Mohd. Ameen had visited Kashmir in January and March 2020 for Hijrah (religious migration) and for engaging in terrorist acts and supporting the activities of ISIS”. Earlier, on January 3, NIA raided the residence of BM Bashaat at Mastikatte village near Mangaluru in Uttar Kannad District of Karnataka and arrested Deepthi for alleged links to the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). Several documents were also seized. Read less...