My son doesn’t know about ISIS: Ismail’s father

“My son, Ismail Musab Abdul Rawoof, has studied only up to Class 8 and he is computer illiterate. He carries a simple mobile phone, which does not have Internet facility. How can he chat online with ISIS members What is ISIS ” asked a distraught Abdul Rawoof, father of Ismail, who was detained on Tuesday evening by the IB and the NIA at Pune airport, for alleged links with Daesh (ISIS), when he was about to board a flight to Dubai from where according to the agencies he had allegedly planned to go to Syria. Speaking to this newspaper from Bhatkal, Mr Rawoof said that he received a call from Ismail at 1.10 am on Wednesday.

“He told me that he was detained by the immigration officials at the Pune International Airport after they found a meat dish in his hand baggage and they wanted to test it as they suspected that it could be beef and beef is banned in Maharashtra. He said that he would go to Mumbai. I haven’t heard from my son since then,” he said.