MLM: Thadiyantavide Nazeer: Lashkar-e-Taiba-Linked Ideologue Recruiting in India From Prison

Thadiyantavide Nazeer is a key Islamic extremist associated with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Pakistan and India’s homegrown jihadist group, Indian Mujahedeen (IM), and has been under arrest since 2013. Nazeer has managed to use his time in prison to radicalize others and was at the center of a cell of radicalized individuals who served time at Bengaluru’s Central Prison.

•Nazeer gained notoriety for his involvement with a series of bombings in the mid-2000s. He was an adept recruiter at this time.

•Nazeer was acquitted in 2022 for his suspected association with several of the bombings he is alleged to have been a part of due to insufficient evidence and/or procedural lapses. He continues to serve a life sentence for his involvement in at least one attack and for recruiting youths into LeT.

For the Complete Article, See Animesh Roul, "Thadiyantavide Nazeer: Lashkar-e-Taiba-Linked Ideologue Recruiting in India From Prison, Militant Leadership Monitor (Subscription), VOLUME XVI, ISSUE 1 | January 2025.