Two residents of Thane's Mumbra – identified by cops only as Tabrez and Ali – have joined Daesh in Iraq.

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The Thane ATS was in the process of filing a case against the two on Thursday after the duo’s parents approached the police.

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Tabrez, 28, and Ali, 30, their parents have told the police, left home for Saudi Arabia saying they had work offers. “Two days back, Tabrez and Ali called their respective families and told them they had joined the terrorist group,” said a Thane ATS police officer, who did not wish to be identified.

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Tabrez and Ali comprise the third known case of men from Maharashtra joining Daesh. Four friends from Kalyan – Areeb Majeed, Fahad Shaikh, Aman Tandel, and Saheem Tanki – had left for Iraq in 2014. The four left for Iraq with pilgrims in May last year and did not return.

Later, it became clear that they had been indoctrinated and had joined the ISIS. Of the four, Areeb, has since returned to India and is currently in jail, while there have been reports of Tanki and Tandel having died fighting for Daesh.

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Four youth from Malvani went missing between October and December last year. While two of the men — Wajid Sheikh and Noor Mohammed —developing cold feet, the third, Ayaz Mohammad, went ahead and joined the terror outfit.

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The fourth youth, Mohsin Shaikh, who the NIA alleged had helped Ayaz in getting the air tickets and in recruiting others through social media, was arrested by the Delhi Police Special Cell in January this year.

Mohsin and 20-year-old Uttar Pradesh resident Rizwan Ahmed have also been named as accused in the NIA charge sheet, which has a total of 228 witnesses, including 102 protected witnesses.