The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been granted seven days’ custody of Salman Rehman Khan, a key accused in a prison radicalisation case linked to Bengaluru. Khan, 29, was deported from Rwanda, where he had been living after his acquittal in a Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) case. He was allegedly indoctrinated into terrorism activities while incarcerated in a Bengaluru prison.
Salman Khan was presented before a special court for terrorism cases after his extradition on November 28. Initially sent to jail, the court later granted the NIA custody from December 3 to 9 for further investigation. Khan was arrested in 2018 on charges under the Pocso Act and was acquitted in 2022. Afterward, he moved to Rwanda but allegedly continued his involvement with radicalised individuals, including those arrested in the 2017 murder of a businessman.
Khan’s case stems from a prison radicalisation investigation initiated in July 2023 by the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch, later taken over by the NIA in October. The chargesheet, filed in February, named eight individuals, including Khan and Tadiyandavede Nasir, a key figure linked to the 2008 Bengaluru serial blasts. Nasir, imprisoned since 2009, is accused of radicalising several inmates at Bengaluru’s central prison.
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