The NIA court in its verdict in the first case registered in Kerala related to the Islamic State pronounced Yasmin Mohammed Zahid of Bihar guilty and sentenced her to seven years in prison.

Yasmin is accused of helping 15 people from Kasargod district in Kerala to migrate to Afghanistan to join the terror outfit. The Kerala Police had initially registered missing persons cases in this regard, and the National Investigation Agency later joined the investigation after the involvement of IS was suspected. Several of the accused in the case are reported to have died while fighting for IS.

Yasmin had attempted to join the IS with her son, but was arrested by the Kerala Police at the Delhi International Airport on July 30, 2016. The NIA had filed the chargesheet against Yasmin, the only one to be arrested in the case, and her husband Abdul Rasheed, who is believed to be in Afghanistan currently.

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