Areeb Majeed reportedly admitted that he was kept on the sidelines by the jihadists, and made to perform menial tasks that didn’t live up to his expectations of the job.
As reported by NDTV, Areeb Majeed, a 23-year-old from Mumbai, was not allowed to fight in war zones when he travelled to Iraq to join the Islamic State group.
In the report, he revealed to interrogators that he was was one of three men that travelled from Kalyan, Mumbai to fight for the Islamic State forces, but was instead assigned to menial labour jobs like cleaning toilets and working on construction sites. The report also claims that the other men accompanying Majeed were made to work as a car mechanics, at the electronics department and as an accountant, respectively.
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Majeeb flew back from Turkey to Mumbai on Friday, and was arrested the following day.
Since then, NDTV reports that he has been under extensive interrogation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), India's premier counter-terrorism agency, at a still undisclosed location.
According to the report by AFP, Majeed stated to NIA officers that he was kept on the sidelines by the jihadists and they only ordered him to perform menial tasks such as fetching water and cleaning toilets.
The report also states that his return back to India came after he called his family after an unexplained bullet wound, which he wasn't getting any medical treatment for. "Only after I begged them, I was taken to a hospital," he was quoted as saying by NIA officers. "There was neither a holy war nor any of the preachings in the holy book were followed." He then was moved to Turkey for treatment, from where he managed to call his parents and pleaded to come home.
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