NIA foils ISIS plan: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested eight Islamic State (ISIS) operatives, together with a module head and foiled plans to trigger IED blasts. The accused had been arrested after raids this morning in 19 areas throughout 4 states.
The early morning crackdown towards the terror group in Ballari and Bengaluru in Karnataka, Amaravati, Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra, Jamshedpur and Bokaro in Jharkhand and Delhi, led to the foiling of a plan by the accused to perform terror acts, particularly Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts.
Who all are arrested?
Module head Minaj alias Md. Sulaiman and Syed Sameer had been arrested from Ballari, Anas Iqbal Shaikh was apprehended from Mumbai, Mohammad Muniruddin, Syid Samiullah alias Sami and Md Muzammil from Bengaluru, Shayan Rahman alias Hussain from Delhi and Md Shahbaz alias Zulfikar alias Guddu from Jamshedpur.
“The eight ISIS agents arrested during the raids were involved in actively promoting terror and terror-related acts and activities of ISIS, the proscribed organisation. They were operating under the leadership of Minaz alias Md Sulaiman,” a spokesperson of the federal company mentioned.
The NIA spokesperson mentioned that the raids additionally led to the seizure of explosive uncooked supplies, reminiscent of sulphur, potassium nitrate, charcoal, gunpowder, sugar and ethanol, sharp-edged weapons, unaccounted money and incriminating paperwork, together with smartphones and different digital gadgets.
What was revealed in preliminary investigations?
According to preliminary investigations, the accused had deliberate to use the explosive uncooked supplies for the fabrication of IEDs, which had been to be used for finishing up terror acts.
The official mentioned investigations have additional revealed that the accused, in pursuance of the trail of violent Jihad, Khilafat, ISIS and had been repeatedly in contact with each other by way of encrypted apps. “They were specifically aiming at college students for the purposes of recruitment, and were also circulating documents relating to the recruitment of Mujahideen for the purpose of Jihad,” it mentioned.
The raids had been a part of NIA’s efforts to destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) anti-terror terror conspiracy towards India. The searches had been carried out by means of shut coordination and the operational help of Karnataka Police, Maharashtra Police, Jharkhand Police and the Delhi Police.
NIA had registered a case towards the ISIS-inspired Ballari module on December 14, 2023. It has, since then, been working carefully with the State Police and central companies to monitor and apprehend members of this module. The anti-terror company has been conducting large-scale crackdowns and has busted varied ISIS modules in latest months. Several terror operatives have been arrested in these raids by the NIA.
