Kuwait, Aug 6 (TOI) : Kuwaiti authorities have arrested a man suspected of funding ISIS sympathisers in India.

Abdulla Hadi Abdul Rehman Al Enezi was arrested in Kuwait after a tip-off from the National Investigation Agency(NIA).

Abdulla Hadi had reportedly sent money to four youths from Kalyan to fund their trip to West Asia.

In May 2014, four youths from Kalyan near Mumbai, namely Shaheen Tanki, Fahad Shaikh, Aman Tandel and Arif Majeed had left the country to visit holy places in the West Asia, but they disappeared thereafter and since then were suspected to have joined IS.

Majeed was later arrested by NIA in November 2014 and brought back to Mumbai.

Last month, Kuwait foiled three planned Islamic State attacks on the country, including a plot to blow up a Shia mosque, after launching raids that resulted in the arrest of militants.

A year ago, Kuwait, home to several US military bases, suffered its deadliest militant attack in decades when a Saudi suicide bomber blew himself up inside a packed Shia mosque, killing 27 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility.

A US ally and neighbour of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Kuwait is part of a 34-nation alliance announced by Riyadh in December aimed at countering Islamic State and al-Qaida in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt and Afghanistan.