The Jammu and Kashmir Police has forwarded to the Centre a Kashmiri man’s application for bringing back his business graduate son, who had joined ISIS and is now in the custody of the US-allied forces in Syria, to India, officials said Sunday.
Adil Ahmed, a Kashmir-resident who had completed his MBAfrom Queensland in Australia, was captured by the US allied forces in Syriaafter he had surrendered along with many ISIS activists earlier this year, theofficials.
Ahmed had moved to Syria in 2013 and informed his familythat he was working with an NGO there.
His father Fayaz Ahmed, who works as a contractor and runs adepartmental store, still cannot believe that his son had joined the deadlygroup and has been moving from pillar to post for the return of his son.
“I am hopeful that since the new government has takenover in New Delhi, things will move on (in bringing back his son),” hesaid.
The officials said the application filed by Fayaz Ahmed hasbeen forwarded to central security agencies in New Delhi for necessary action.
“If Adil is brought back, he can give us a deep insightinto the functioning of ISIS and their nefarious plans,” an official,speaking on condition of anonymity, said.
Adil, along with a few hundred ISIS cadres, had surrenderedbefore the US-led forces in Syria and has since been jailed.
Having completed his MBA from Queensland in Australia, Adilleft for Turkey via Jordan on June 21, 2013 on an Indian passport after heallegedly got in touch with some radical groups based in Australia.
Adil, after migrating to ISIS-controlled Syria, ostensiblyon the pretext of working for an NGO, married a Dutch woman who had also joinedthe group.
The couple gave birth to a son in 2014, who died during theturmoil in Syria.
His family had been claiming that Adil was working in Syriaand neighbouring countries, till his father received a message from his Dutchwife that she and their son were in custody of the US-allied forces.
The wife, according to the officials, was given access tothe International Committee of Red Cross which facilitated contact with herhusband’s family.
“I have now approached the state authorities seekinghelp to bring back my son,” Fayaz Ahmed, “I have been informed that aformal process will start only after the new government assumes office in NewDelhi.”Adil is the first Kashmiri to have joined theISIS.