Woman arrested in March for alleged ISIS links tests COVID-19 positive
New Delhi/IBNS: A suspected ISIS operative, who is currently in the custody of National Investigation Agency (NIA), has tested positive for COVID-19, media reports said.
A suspected operative of terror group Islamic State - Hina Bashir Beigh - has tested positive for coronavirus while in the custody of National Investigation Agency (NIA) following which she had been admitted at a Delhi hospital, people familiar with the development told Hindustan Times.
Beigh (39) and her husband Jahanzaib Sami, residents of Srinagar, were arrested by Delhi Police’s Special Cell from the national capital’s Jamia Nagar area in the first week of March for their alleged links with ISKP. The also allegedly instigated protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the police told the newspaper.
At the time of NIA taking custody, Tihar jail authorities had conducted the test for Covid-19 on three accused in which they tested negative. They were brought to NIA headquarters and questioned at length about their affiliation with the terror outfit over the past nine days, reports the newspaper.
As Beigh reportedly developed symptoms later, she underwent test.
The NIA informed the duty magistrate at Patiala House on Sunday that Beigh has been found “positive” for coronavirus, reports Hindustan Times.
“I urged the court that Beigh should be immediately referred to a hospital and permission be granted for her to talk to me regularly, which was not allowed earlier,” Beigh’s lawyer M S Khan told the newspaper.
Her husband Sami and another ISIS operative Abdullah Basith have not shown COVID-19 infection symptoms so far.
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