A team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Chennai, visited the Selvapuram police station in Coimbatore on Friday to probe details of a case registered by the police under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) earlier this year.
The case pertains to an alleged conspiracy to kill a man by a six-member group who had protested against the conversion of his son, who married a Muslim woman, last year.
Police sources said the NIA team visited the city police commissioner’s office and Selvapuram police station. The team perused the case diary and statements of the accused, who were arrested by the police for conspiring to kill Kumarasan, a resident of Selvapuram.
According to the police, Kumarasan’s son had married a Muslim girl from Tiruvarur in September 2021 as per Hindu rituals. The girl’s mother Noor Nisha, 46, an office-bearer of a Muslim organization in Tiruvarur, allegedly tried to convert her son-in-law to Islam, which Mr. Kumarasan opposed.
Nisha reportedly approached H. Fakruddin, 54, president of the Indian Muslim Development Association (IMDA) from Kodungyur in Chennai, to eliminate Mr. Kumarasan. Fakruddin reportedly hired H. Imran Khan, 34; M. Saddam Hussein, 29, from Tiruchi; Muhammad Ali Jinnah, 47, of Perundurai in Erode; And 21-year-old T. Ramveer alias Ajay from Uttar Pradesh to carry out the murder.
Police arrested five people on March 7 and 8 and Nisha on April 12. UAPA sections were invoked against him on April 18 and the police sent a report to the Home Ministry whether it should be probed by the NIA.