Before his arrest, Adnananali Sarkar, a resident of Pune’s Kondhwa area and a consulting anaesthetist at a leading private hospital, had allegedly supported the banned terrorist group ISIS along with his co-accused. (File image)

A special court designated under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act on Saturday sentenced a Pune-based doctor to six years’ imprisonment after he pleaded guilty in an ISIS terror module case registered in July 2023. The court said there should be a “deterrent message” to ensure that such acts concerning national security “do not crop up within society in any form”.

Before his arrest, Adnananali Sarkar, a resident of Pune ’s Kondhwa area and a consulting anaesthetist at a leading private hospital, had allegedly supported the banned terrorist group ISIS along with his co-accused.

The NIA alleged that Sarkar had created a WhatsApp group to conduct lectures on “Jihad, khilafat etc.” under the pretext of “religious preaching”, with the aim of recruiting more members to promote…