Ahmedabad Times

The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has filed a cost sheet in opposition to three accused individuals linked to the ISIS terrorist organisation in a Jihadi bioterrorism conspiracy geared toward finishing up mass poisoning of harmless folks in public areas in India, the company mentioned on Tuesday.

Amongst these named within the cost sheet, filed earlier than a particular courtroom in Ahmedabad, embody the principle accused – a Hyderabad based mostly physician, Syed Ahmed Mohiuddin, and two Uttar Pradesh residents – Azad and Mohammad Suhel

“Working beneath the steerage of their respective IS-linked foreign-based handlers, the accused had operated in a coordinated method to recruit susceptible youth radicalized by the handlers to help Jihad and unfold terror by means of unlawful prohibited weapons and bioterrorism. They’d deliberate to make use of ‘ricin’ – a potent organic toxin occurring naturally within the seeds of castor oil and listed in in Schedule I of Chemical Weapons Conference – to hold out the nefarious agenda of Islamic State,” the NIA mentioned in a press release.

The case was initially registered by Anti Terror Squad, Gujarat, following the arrest of Dr Mohiuddin, an MBBS from China, after he was caught at a toll plaza carrying unlawful weapons, a bottle containing 4 litres of castor oil and different incriminatory articles in his automotive in November 2025.

Investigation by the ATS had led to the arrest of the opposite two accused the identical day. Azad and Suhel had been discovered to have earlier picked up parcels of cash and unlawful prohibited weapons from a dead-drop web site in Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, and dropped them at a location in Chhatral, Gujarat, for Moinuddin to select up.

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“After taking on the investigation in January 2026, NIA discovered that Moinuddin was concerned within the conspiracy by his handler on the promise of being made an ISIS ‘Amir’ of South Asia. He had remodeled his Hyderabad residence right into a clandestine laboratory for making ready ‘ricin’ from castor seeds,” the NIA mentioned.

Investigations revealed that the opposite two accused had knowingly participated within the conspiracy by sustaining contact with handlers, receiving and utilising proceeds of terror, conducting reconnaissance, taking an oath of allegiance, and accumulating unlawful arms and ammunition, in accordance with the company.

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Suhel, it hightailed, acted “because the essential hyperlink between the handler and different co-accused for recruitment, coordination, and dealing with of funds and weapons consignments. He had obtained and distributed funds, carried out reconnaissance, dealt with and transported unlawful weapons, recorded Bay’ah (Oath), and ready ISIS flags.”