First Indian woman \\\'operative of ISIS\\\' deported from Dubai

In a major breakthrough in unravelling the Islamic State's designs, intelligence agencies last Friday arrested an Indian woman soon after she was deported from UAE for being allegedly involved in recruiting online for the terror outfit.
The 38-year-old woman, identified as Afsha Jabeen alias 'Nicky Joseph', has been posing as a British national while trying to lure young men and women through the social media into joining the dreaded outfit, sources said. Afsha, who hails from Hyderabad, was taken into custody at the airport after being deported along with husband and children. The arrest followed nine months of intense surveillance mounted on her in India, UAE and Britain.
"We arrested Afsha at the airport on Friday morning. We have to interrogate her to get more details about her activities," Cyberabad Commissioner CV Anand told TOI.
Afsha is being interrogated by sleuths from several agencies. She used to motivate Indians to join IS mainly through Facebook groups, first sending them literature and other propaganda material and later coercing them to join the outfit.
Afsha's name first surfaced on January 16, 2015, when police arrested Salman Mohiuddin (32), a US-trained engineer from Hyderabad's Habeebnagar area, minutes before he was to board a flight to Dubai with plans to join the IS.
During interrogation, Salman confessed that he was indoctrinated by Nicky Joseph and that he was to join her in Dubai. Afsha had laid out plans for Salman's travel to Syria through Turkey, according to Times Of India.

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