Probe Agency Conducts Searches In Tamil Nadu Over Facebook Posts: Report

The case pertains to uploading some incriminating posts on Facebook by Mohammad Iqbal, a Madurai resident, advocating the ideology of the ISIS terror group and fundamentalist organisation Hizb-Ut-Tahrir.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday carried out searches at four locations in Tamil Nadu's Madurai in connection with a case relating to incriminating Facebook posts by an extremist advocating the ideology of the ISIS terror group and fundamentalist organisation Hizb-Ut-Tahrir, an official said. The case pertains to uploading some incriminating posts on Facebook by Mohammad Iqbal, a Madurai resident, who was arrested in December last year, he said. In the social media posts, Iqbal, an extremist, advocated the ideology of the ISIS terror group and Hizb-Ut-Tahrir, a fundamentalist organisation, the official of the premier investigation agency said. The posts on the Facebook page was uploaded by Iqbal for denigrating a particular community, the official said, adding they were designed to incite communal disharmony amongst different religious groups, in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order.