Contact with member does not indicate support to ISIS, says court; charges quashed

THE NIA's charge that a Madurai native was associating himself with the ISIS and supporting them through social media posts fell through before a trial court in Chennai with the judge ruling that mere contact with an ISIS operative would not indicate support towards the organisation.

- SIDDHARTH PRABHAKAR

In the 93-page judgment, judge KH Elavazhagan said that there was no evidence to show that the accused was a supporter of the ISIS. The prosecution had produced the social media records of the alleged ISIS operative with whom the accused had been in touch with. But these were from 2013, which was well before the period for which the charges were framed against him, the judge said.