Born: 1981;

Place of Birth: India;

Gender: Male;

Nationality: Indian;

General Info:
Bava Bahrudeen and Ziyavudeen Baqavi are two accused suspects of an extremist Islamic outfit named Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT) which is affiliated to the Islamic State.

They were engaged in radicalising and recruiting gullible youth to establish an Islamic State / Caliphate or Khilafah and enforce a ”so-called” draft Constitution written by the radical Islamic preacher, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, who is the founder of Hizb-ut-Tahrir.

Bahrudeen and Baqavi were organising meetings to recruit members and also conducting secret classes to indoctrinate, radicalise and motivate youth to work towards establishment of Islamic State / Khilafah by overthrowing the Government of India.

They had also conspired to establish new cells in various districts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala through social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, etc. in order to spread the ideology of Hizb-ut-Tahrir.

The case, originally registered in Tamil Nadu, was re-registered by the NIA in April last year.

Also, the investigating agency found that Bava and Baqavi were working in tandem with Mohammed Iqbal and were into recruiting youths across the state for establishing an Islamic State under ISIS.