Subahani Haja Moideen, an ISIS operative, who was reportedly preparing to attack certain prominent persons and was targetting public places, was found guilty by a court in Kochi on Friday for hatching a criminal conspiracy to wage a war against the governments of India and Iraq. He was arrested by the NIA in 2016.

Moideen, hailing from Kerala’s Idukki, had become an ISIS member in Iraq in 2015. The Special NIA court will pronounce the quantum of punishment on Monday.

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Moideen had said during the interrogations that he knowingly and intentionally communicated with co-conspirators in ISIS within and outside India over Facebook and Telegram to wage war against the Governments of Iraq and India.

According to the National Investigation Agency’s chargesheet, Moideen knowingly and intentionally joined the terrorist organisation and waged war against the Government of Iraq, an Asiatic Power in alliance with the Government of India.

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The Court convicted Moideen under IPC Sections 120(B) (Criminal Conspiracy), Section 125 (waging war against Asiatic power in alliance with the Government of India) and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, Section 20 (Punishment for being a member of terrorist gang or organisation), It also held him guilty under Section 38 (Offence relating to membership of a terrorist organisation) and 39 (Offence relating to support given to a terrorist organisation).