IIT Student Held For Pledging Allegiance To Islamic State In LinkedIn Post

Guwahati: An IIT student was detained by police in Assam after he pledged allegiance to Islamic State (ISIS) in Assam.

The fourth-year Biotechnology student of IIT-Guwahati recently claimed on a social media platform and emails that he intended to join the dreaded terror outfit.

“Reference IIT Guwahati student pleading allegiance to ISIS – the said student has been detained while travelling and further lawful follow up would take place,” Director-General of Police GP Singh posted on X.

“After receiving an email, we verified the authenticity of the contents and started an investigation.” The email was sent by the student, in which he claimed that he was on the way to joining ISIS,” informed Additional Superintendent of Police (STF) Kalyan Kumar Pathak.

The student, who wrote an open letter on LinkedIn stating the reason for his decision, went missing from IIT-Guwahati campus. Police then issued a lookout alert for the student, who hails from Delhi.

He was found in Hajo, around 30 km from Guwahati, in Kamrup district and detained for interrogation.

Special Task Force sources said that the student was taken to his hostel room from where cops recovered a black flag similar to the ISIS flag and an Islamic manuscript.

According to police, he was a loner and didn’t have friends on the campus.

Significantly, the IIT student was nabbed four days after ISIS India head Haris Farooqi and his associate Anurag Singh were arrested in Dhubri district after they had crossed over from Bangladesh.