Chennai: An M-Tech student from VIT in Vellore who had left India last month is believed to have joined the Islamic State (IS), sources in Tamil Nadu and Kerala police said on Sunday.
“We believe that he had travelled from Hyderabad to Tehran via Dubai on August 16 this year. And he had called up his family in Malappuram in Kerala to inform that he had reached his destination of IS”, police sources said here.
This is the first time Tamil Nadu may be hearing of an M-tech student quitting studies halfway through to join IS. The student - Najeeb Kunduvail Padinharanhil, 22, had joined the college on July 12 to pursue M-tech. He was staying outside the campus as a day scholar. He had completed his B-Tech in Dubai, where his father is working.
Malappuram police had registered a man missing case based on his mother’s complaint on August 24. Police sources said they assume the youth has joined the IS. “We don’t know from where he got attracted to IS— from Dubai or after reaching his college campus. The IS was banned in India in December 2014 and the central and state agencies had been keeping a watch on those who get attracted to the ideology of the Islamic State.
A number of youngsters who got attracted to the concept of IS militia had left India and got killed in the war in Syria while fighting for Islamic State caliphate.
