# ISIS module accused threatens Mumbai NIA judge 2026-10-08T17:46:03+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets An accused in the Mumbai ISIS module case, Tabis Sidique, threatened the presiding special NIA judge during a hearing on Thursday, 8 October. Sidique, arrested in July 2023, told Judge Abhay Joglekar he had ‘no respect for the existing government’ and ‘no respect for the court’, and said he would ‘look upon’ the judge and his family. The court condemned the conduct as ‘highly deprecated’. It ordered Sidique produced only via video conference until further orders. The court noted his medical records from state-run JJ Hospital showed no major mental illness and concluded he was ‘merely pretending to have mental issues so as to evade trial proceedings’. Sidique is one of seven people arrested by the NIA in connection with an alleged ISIS module. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Both outlets report the same facts from the same court hearing on 8 October: Tabis Sidique, an ISIS module accused, threatened Special NIA Judge Abhay Joglekar and was ordered to appear via video conference. The coverage is uniform straight reporting. Neither source adds independent analysis or differing emphasis. The implications are procedural: the NIA court acted swiftly to restrict Sidique’s physical presence, and its finding that he was feigning mental illness to delay trial may influence how other accused in terror cases are assessed for fitness to stand trial. No next date or decision was named by either outlet. ## Coverage Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral - timesofindia.indiatimes.com (neutral report) Straight court-proceedings report, no slant - indiatoday.in (neutral report) Identical wire-copy style, no slant This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Tags: Abhay Joglekar, Mumbai, NIA, Tabis Sidique Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/isis-module-accused-threatens-mumbai-nia-judge/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/isis-module-accused-threatens-mumbai-nia-judge/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/