NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency on Monday filed a chargesheet against three Islamic State recruits who had established contacts with IS members of at least 24 countries and were planning terror attacks.The accused persons were in touch with two senior online motivators/recruiters of Islamic State including a Philippines-based woman Karen Aisha al Muslimah, who is said to be in touch with thousands of recruits all over the world, and another person identified as ‘Madmullah’. The trio was also in touch with first arrested IS recruit Mumbai based Areeb Majeed and India’s principal online recruiter Shafi Armar.They were deported from the UAE on the information of Indian agencies and it turned out that they were planning some major activities.The accused persons - Sheikh Azhar ul Islam (24), a resident of Ganderbal in J&K, Adnan Hassan (36), from Bhatkal, and Mohammad Farhan Shaikh (25) from Mumbra, Maharashtra, were arrested by NIA on January 29 this year upon their deportation.They had formally become members of ISIS and promoted the ideology of ISIS, inciting others to become member of ISIS, indulging in terrorist and anti-national activities through many social networking platforms like Orkut, Nimbuzz, Google Talk, Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype, Vkontakte, Kik, Twitter, Hangouts, Snapchat, Youtube, Viber, Telegram, Wickr, Surespot, google drive and telegram.NIA says four laptops, two tablets, seven mobiles, five SIMs, three SD cards, two pendrives and some incriminating documents were seized from them.“Investigation revealed incriminating chats, posts, videos, images and comments on Facebook, whatsapp, Kik, VKontakte and twitter shared and circulated in groups and channels on various social networking sites, during 2014-15,” NIA says.The probe also revealed their association with the ISIS operatives from various countries including India, Australia, Bangladesh, Egypt, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Serbia, Sudan, Srilanka, Saudi Arabia, UAE and United Kingdom, who were actively propagating, promoting and inciting people online to join ISIS.These accused persons in connivance with their associates based in the UAE and other countries were also actively involved in receiving, collecting and distributing funds to persons interested to go to Syria to further the activities of the ISIS using Western Union.These funds were transferred by the accused persons from the UAE to the recipients from Tunisia, Philippines and India. Adnan Hassan had also funded the ISIS Module from Hyderabad, and he had attempted twice to flee from India to go to Syria, first from Kolkata in 2014 via Bangladesh and Afghanistan and then from Nagpur to Srinagar, J&K in 2015, says NIA.The three IS members were also in close contact with other accused persons chargesheeted in other NIA cases, including Kalyan based Areeb Majeed, Mohammed Sirajuddin, Mohammed Naser and India’s principal recruiter Shafi Armar and shared with them many common online contacts of ISIS operatives including Karen Aisha al Muslimah and Madmullah .