New Delhi

A special court on Monday remanded Mohsin Ahmad, alleged to have links with the ‘Islamic State’ (IS) to National Investigation Agency’s (NIA) custody till August 16.

NIA had taken him into custody on Saturday from Batla House.

On Sunday, Ahmad was produced before the duty magistrate at Patiala House Courts which remanded him to only one-day NIA custody.

He was again produced before the court on Monday by the NIA which sought his six-day remand.

The case, the probe agency said, has links with several states and they need to take him to another state for the recovery of evidence and arresting his aides.

According to the NIA, Ahmad is a radicalised and active member of Islamic State (IS) involved in collection of funds for it from sympathisers in India as well as abroad.

He is alleged to be sending these funds to Syria and other places in the form of cryptocurrency.

Earlier, on Saturday, the NIA conducted searches in the residential premises of the accused in Batla House and in Bihar, and subsequently had arrested him in the case pertaining to online and on ground activities of IS.

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NIA registered the case suo-motu on June 25.