Saquib Abdul Hamid Nachan, a convicted terrorist with links to ISIS, died while undergoing treatment for a brain stroke. The
Tihar Jail authorities said this and later National Investigation Agency (NIA) also verified his death. Saquib was convicted for his involvement in a number of subversive activities including the bomb blasts in Mumbai in 2002 and 2003.
Nachan, 65, had been in judicial custody in Tihar Jail since 2023 and was admitted to the hospital a few days ago, He was first admitted to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital and later shifted to Safdarjung Hospital, where he succumbed. A former member of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), Nachan was known name in India’s terror landscape,having long history of extremist activities. First flagged in 1991, he later drew attention for alleged links to terror plots in Gujarat with connections to Khalistani operatives.
He was convicted by the Supreme Court in the late 1990s and came back into focus for orchestrating a string of bombings in Mumbai between 2002 and 2003—specifically at Mumbai Central, Vile Parle, and Mulund. The attacks resulted in numerous deaths and injuries.
According to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Saquib Nachan, a habitual offender in many previous terror cases, was also a self-styled Amir-e-Hind for ISIS in India. Earlier in June 2024, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had chargesheeted Nachan along with 16 hardcore agents of the proscribed global terrorist network, in a conspiracy involving the recruitment and radicalisation of youth and the fabrication of improvised explosive devices in the Delhi-Padgha ISIS terror module case.
The accused were chargesheeted under various sections of IPC, UA(P) Act, Arms Act and Explosive Substances Act, were found to have been engaged in a massive ISISI conspiracy involving recruitment, training and propagation of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ideology among gullible youth, along with fabrication of explosives and IEDs and fund-raising for the banned outfit.
Its investigation had subsequently led to the seizure of several incriminating documents and data relating to manufacturing of explosives and the fabrication of IEDs, along with propaganda magazines like 'Voice of Hind', 'Rumiyah', 'Khilafat', 'Dabiq', published by IS.
The agency had further found during investigations that the accused had been sharing digital files related to IED fabrication with their contacts. They were also found to be actively raising funds to further their terror plans as part of ISIS agenda to spread violence in India and destroy its secular ethos and democratic systems.The accused had carried out several acts preparatory to unleashing of terrorist attacks, including recruitment of vulnerable youth into the organisation.
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