The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against three accused persons linked to the ISIS terrorist organisation in a Jihadi bioterrorism conspiracy aimed at carrying out mass poisoning of innocent people in public spaces in India.
The main accused, a Hyderabad-based doctor, Syed Ahmed Mohiuddin, and two Uttar Pradesh residents, Azad and Mohammad Suhel, were named in the charge sheet filed before a special court in Ahmedabad.
According to the NIA, the accused had operated in a coordinated manner to recruit vulnerable youth radicalized by their IS-linked foreign-based handlers to support Jihad and spread terror through illegal prohibited weapons and bioterrorism.
They had planned to use 'ricin' – a potent biological toxin occurring naturally in the seeds of castor oil and listed in Schedule I of Chemical Weapons Convention – to carry out the nefarious agenda of Islamic State.
The case was originally registered by Anti Terror Squad, Gujarat, following the arrest of Dr Mohiuddin, an MBBS from China, after he was caught at a toll plaza carrying illegal weapons, a bottle containing four litres of castor oil and other incriminatory articles in his car in November 2025.
Investigation by the ATS had led to the arrest of the other two accused the same day.
