IIT Guwahati student posts online he has joined ISIS

A person claiming to be a student of Biotechnology at IIT Guwahati has created a sensation when he stated in a social media platform that he joined terror outfit, ISIS.

Tauseef Ali Farooqui after joining the terrorist organization wrote an open letter on LinkedIn stating the reason for his decision.

A senior police officer who does not want to be named told ET, "There are claims that he was abducted from Pan Bazar area in Guwahati and he had sent mails announcing his joining ISIS. We are investigating the whole development."


The head of ISIS in India, Haris Farooqi, who has been active since 2019, was arrested along with his associates on Wednesday by the Assam police. His associate Anurag Singh alias Rehan belongs to Panipat and converted to Islam while his wife is a Bangladeshi national. Farooqi was suspected to be hiding in Bangladesh and carried out radicalisation of gullible Indian youths.

Farooqi has been instrumental in setting up modules in Jharkhand, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Farooqui, who hails from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh, was wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Farooqi is an expert in indoctrination, adept in managing funds and an IED expert like Yasin Bhatkal of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) who carried out multiple blasts after 2008.