New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out raids in three states—Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh—in a ongoing investigation into the ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ terror module that was busted in Bihar final yr. According to the NIA, the homes of eight suspects in Maharashtra’s Nagpur, Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior, Gujarat’s Valsad, Surat and Botad districts have been searched and incriminating materials, together with digital gadgets (cellphones and reminiscence playing cards) and paperwork have been seized.
Bihar Police filed FIR in July 2022
Back in July final yr the Bihar Police on the Phulwari Sharif police station in Patna registered the FIR in opposition to members of the ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ module that was being “operated and controlled” from Pakistan.
Pakistani nationwide Marghoob Ahmad Danish was arrested
Marghoob Ahmad Danish alias Tahir, administrator of a WhatsApp Group ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’, launched by a Pakistani nationwide, was arrested within the case. The company had filed a chargesheet in opposition to him in January. Danish, the company stated, had created ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ teams on completely different social media platforms, together with WhatsApp, Telegram and BiP Messenger. “He had also created a dedicated WhatsApp group for Bangladeshi nationals, with the title -‘BDGhazwa E HindBD’,” it stated.
“Marghoob had added many persons from India as well as from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Yemen, in these groups,” the company stated. The module aimed to “radicalise” impressionable Indian children with the final word goal of conquest of India – ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’, the NIA stated. The members of this group have been being radicalised with the intention to transform them into “sleeper cells” for finishing up terrorist actions, it alleged.
(With PTI inputs)
