Subahani Haja Moideen, 36, an IS activist from Thodupuzha in Idukki district was sentenced by a NIA court in Kochi to life imprisonment for waging a war in association with terrorist forces against Iraq, India’s friendly nation. The court observed that the NIA which probed the case against Moideen has succeeded in establishing that he had aligned with IS and waged war against Iraq.
This is the first case of its kind filed in Kerala by the NIA against a person for aligning with a terrorist organization and waging war against India’s friendly country.
Judge P Krishnakumar found Moideen guilty under IPC Section 125 (waging war against a friendly nation of India), 120 B, and UAPA Sections 20, 38 and 49. Moideen has to pay a fine of Rs 2,17,000 under these Sections.
The judge said that the sentence was based on the interest of the civil society. The NIA found that Moideen had left India for Turkey in 2015 and reached Iraq via Istanbul. His locations were identified by tracking the spots from where he logged into his Facebook accounts.In a Facebook chat he had with one of his associates, Moideen had made it known that he wanted to join the IS to kill the enemies of Islam. Moideen was taken into custody by the NIA along with the group of youth who had assembled at Kanakamala in Kannur district to plan a war against India.
