https://www.opindia.com/2023/04/kerala-train-fire-shahrukh-saifi-radicalised-islamist-preacher/
According to Police, Shahrukh Saifi, the Delhi resident who is charged in connection with the recent train fire in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, is highly radicalised and a follower of the controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik.
In the April 2 fire incident on board the Kannur-bound Executive Express train, which resulted in the deaths of three people, Shahrukh Saifi, 27, a native of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, was charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on Sunday, according to the police.
According to Additional Director General of Police M R Ajith Kumar, who also serves as the head of the special investigative team in Kozhikode, “Saifi has been constantly watching Naik’s videos. He is an extremely radicalised man who arrived in Kerala with the intent to do the crime. All of the evidence linking him to the crime has been acquired.”…
The ADGP further stated that an investigation into whether he received backing from extremist groups in Kerala or elsewhere in the nation is also ongoing….
On April 2, Saifi splashed petrol on the passengers of the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express and set them ablaze at Elathur in Kozhikode….
Reportedly, Shahrukh Saifi, a YouTuber by profession changed his lifestyle in June last year as he quit smoking and started to spend more time in Namaz. The police suspect that despite having a very small number of subscribers on his YouTube channel, Saifi is thought to have been approached by radicals because of his social media activity…..
While Shahrukh reportedly told the cops about his changed lifestyle before carrying out the train fire attack, his family in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh claimed that he never showed any explicit religious behaviour….
According to Police, Shahrukh Saifi, the Delhi resident who is charged in connection with the recent train fire in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, is highly radicalised and a follower of the controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik.
In the April 2 fire incident on board the Kannur-bound Executive Express train, which resulted in the deaths of three people, Shahrukh Saifi, 27, a native of Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, was charged under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) on Sunday, according to the police.
According to Additional Director General of Police M R Ajith Kumar, who also serves as the head of the special investigative team in Kozhikode, “Saifi has been constantly watching Naik’s videos. He is an extremely radicalised man who arrived in Kerala with the intent to do the crime. All of the evidence linking him to the crime has been acquired.”…
The ADGP further stated that an investigation into whether he received backing from extremist groups in Kerala or elsewhere in the nation is also ongoing….
On April 2, Saifi splashed petrol on the passengers of the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express and set them ablaze at Elathur in Kozhikode….
Reportedly, Shahrukh Saifi, a YouTuber by profession changed his lifestyle in June last year as he quit smoking and started to spend more time in Namaz. The police suspect that despite having a very small number of subscribers on his YouTube channel, Saifi is thought to have been approached by radicals because of his social media activity…..
While Shahrukh reportedly told the cops about his changed lifestyle before carrying out the train fire attack, his family in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh claimed that he never showed any explicit religious behaviour….
