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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday said controversial NRI preacher and televangelist Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) had provided Rs 80,000 scholarship to an Islamic State (IS) sympathiser last year.
An official of the anti-terror agency said IRF had provided the scholarship to Abu Anas, a resident of Tonk in Rajasthan, in October 2015.
“Anas had planned to go to Syria to fight along with IS in the same period but he was arrested by the NIA in January this year and later chargesheeted,” an NIA official told IANS on the condition of anonymity.
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