THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Bindu Sampath, mother of Nimisha Sampath alias Fathima Isa — an Islamic State (IS) recruit — who is currently lodged in a jail in Kabul along with four other terror recruits, termed the Union government’s alleged disinterest in bringing them back as “inhuman”.
“’I hear that the Union government is yet to take a final decision on the matter, but if they intend to let my daughter rot in that Afghan prison, it will be a gross violation of her human rights as she is still a citizen of this country,” Bindu said.
According to agency reports, the four women lodged in a jail in Kabul are Soniya, Merin, Nimisha and Raheela, all Keralites.
The news of Keralites joining the IS surfaced after the state government contacted various central agencies IB, NIA, RAW in 2016 about the veracity of reports about 19 missing people from the state.
According to some of the relatives they are believed to have joined the IS.
These 19 included 10 men, six women and three children and of these, most of them hail from Kasaragod and a few from Palakkad and include Christian and Hindu converts.
In the past three years, a few of those who had joined the IS were reportedly killed.
The husbands of these Kerala women were among those who were killed.
If the government thinks that she has committed crimes against the country, she should be brought back here and made to stand trial before the courts here, Bindu said.
Bindu wants her daughter to face the law in IndiaBindu, whose elder son is a Major in the Army, said that the people who allegedly radicalised her daughter were leading a peaceful life here and no investigation agency in the country seemed to be interested in their activities.
“The college where she studied and where she was radicalised still functions without any problem.
Her roommate who played a key role in radicalisation and the people who presided over her conversion, all of them continue to lead a peaceful life here,” Bindu said.
Bindu said that she had filed a complaint to then home minister Ramesh Chennithala seeking his intervention after she learned about her daughter’s religious conversion.
She even filed a habeas corpus petition before the high court to know the whereabouts of her daughter.
The court had, in turn, instructed the Kasaragod police to update her whereabouts periodically.
It was almost six months after this, she flew to Afghanistan along with her husband Bexin alias Isa, Bindu said.
“If there were proper follow-up actions to my complaints, Nimisha would not have ended up where she is now,” Bindu said.
While she wants her daughter to face the law in India, Bindu wishes to take care of her 4-yr-old grandchild and provide her a safe home.
Nimisha was seven months pregnant at the time of her departure to Afghanistan.
Mother of IS recruit jailed in Afghanistan seeks her return
