ISIS linked Ramodia brothers sent to remand till 10 March by court

Rajkot: Two brothers Vaseem(yellow t-shirt) and Naeem Ramodia(blue t-shirt) having links with terror organization Islamic States of Iraq and Syria(ISIS) were today produced in court. They have been sent on remands(police custody) till March 10 by court. Both brothers have confessed in court that they were in process to do bomb blasts at Chotila and at Trikon baug in Rajkot.

ISIS operative brothers could not find an advocate in Rajkot during production in court

The two alleged ISIS operative brothers, Vaseem Ramodia and Naeem Ramodia nabbed by the Gujarat ATS today could not find an advocate here for them during their first production in a local court which allowed 12 days remand of the duo to the ATS for further investigation.

ATS Dy SP Chavda said that they could not find any advocate as all the local advocates were seemingly unhappy with the development and did not appear for them.

‘However it is learnt that they have found one advocate of Jamnagar, who would represent them in the court in future,’ the ATS Dy SP said.

Vaseem (30) was nabbed from here while Naeem (28) was caught from Bhavnagar.

They had reportedly confessed about their terror intention in the court today. They represented themselves in the court in the absence of any advocate today.

Meanwhile, the telephone conversation audio clips between the two brothers have revealed that they were very eager to carry out a successful terror attack as soon as possible to ‘prove their point’ to his ISIS handler. In one of the clips Vaseem is even heard to be complaining about the ‘slow pace’ of ISIS chief Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi. They had tried to hack one person to death in Chotila while attempted faile bomb attacks on shops here. They wanted to avenge the killings of their Muslim brethren.

The ATS has reportedly sent the evidences and materials including the clips of their conversation with their handler, gunpowder, laptop, mobile phones and various downloaded materials including IED (bomb) making procedure, ISIS related info and literature recovered from them during late-night raids of February 25 from Bhavnagar and Rajkot, to forensic science laboratory (FSL) for various tests and corroboration.The duo have been booked under section 121 of the IPC ( Waging, or attempting to wage war, or abetting waging of war, against the Government of India.) which has provision of capital punishment and life imprisonment, and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and other relevant sections of various acts.

Primary investigation revealed that they had come in contact with ISIS operatives online through various social medial like the Facebook, Telegram, Instagram, Imo, Whatsapp etc around 2-3 years ago and become influenced by their ideology and were in touch with some handler, who is yet to be identified. The ATS was keeping a watch on them for the past around 3 months and when their activities become more serious It was decided to nab them.They had tried some ‘lone wolf’ (doing it alone) terror attacks including hacking someone to death in Chotila and torching some vehicles but had not succeeded. Had they been successful, they could have been taken in to the ‘inner circle’ of the ISIS.

The father of the duo Arif Ramodia, a retired employee of Saurashtra university is a popular local umpire associated with SCA and have done umpiring in numerous district level matches.

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