Alleged IS recruit Arif Majeed arrested
Sources said Majeed returned home on Friday. He was trained in Iraq for 15 days by the Islamic State before being sent to fight in Syria and Turkey.
He was shot twice and finally managed to escape to a safe part of Turkey about a month ago. Part of the reason he left the group was because he wanted medical treatment for his injuries, reports said.
The Nation Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested him late on Friday and accordingly filed criminal charges for waging war against a foreign government against Majeed. After landing at the Mumbai airport early Friday morning on a flight from Turkey, he was taken away for questioning by intelligence officers.
The NIA sleuths now want information on how he entered Iraq, how he managed to escape and whether he has any details on the 40 construction workers from India who were kidnapped from Baghdad in June allegedly by Islamic State militants, sources said.
Majeed had left his home along with three other young Muslim men from Kalyan on the eastern outskirts of Mumbai to travel to Iraq.
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