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Charges against two men in Kerala training camp case dropped

Trivandrum - The two were named by multiple investigating agencies for being part of various terror attacks in the country from 2008 to 2011.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has decided to set free two persons accused of attending a terror training camp in Kerala for launching a series of attacks across India.
The agency has sought the sanction of Federal Ministry of Home Affairs for dropping charges against Abu Saad and Shah Alam, residents of Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh. They were accused of attending the training camp organised by leaders of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) at Wagamon in Kerala in 2007.
The two were named by multiple investigating agencies for being part of various terror attacks in the country from 2008 to 2011.
The investigation by the NIA, however, could not find any evidence against the two.
The NIA also stated that they found that the two persons had not attended the camp. The two were among 14 persons from Azamgarh, who had allegedly participated in the camp organised by a radical faction of the SIMI headed by Safdar Nagori.
If the home ministry grants the sanction to drop the case, the NIA would not press the charges in the court. The NIA had earlier believed that this camp was organised by the SIMI to lift the sagging morale of its cadres. As part of this plan, the members were supposed to carry out a series of attacks across the country.
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