In a big crackdown towards ISIS, the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) carried out raids at 19 places throughout Karnataka, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, and Delhi, ensuing within the arrest of eight alleged ISIS operatives, together with the module head. The operation aimed toward foiling a terror plot, particularly involving Improvised Explosive System (IED) blasts, the NIA officers revealed.
The arrested people have been recognized as Minaj, the module head, and Syed Sameer from Ballari; Anas Iqbal Shaikh 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.
In response to NIA’s assertion, the detainees have been actively concerned in selling terror-related actions of the proscribed organisation, ISIS, working underneath the management of Minaz alias Md Sulaiman. The raids resulted within the seizure of explosive uncooked supplies, together with sulphur, potassium nitrate, charcoal, gunpowder, sugar, and ethanol. Sharp-edged weapons, unaccounted money, incriminating paperwork, smartphones, and different digital units have been additionally confiscated, it added.
“Investigations have additional revealed that the accused, in pursuance of the trail of violent Jihad, Khilafat, ISIS and so forth., have been repeatedly in contact with each other by way of encrypted apps. They have been particularly aiming at School college students for the needs of recruitment, and have been additionally circulating paperwork regarding recruitment of Mujahideen for the aim of Jihad,” the discharge added.
The NIA raids have been a part of an ongoing effort to dismantle ISIS terror conspiracies towards India. The company had registered a case towards the ISIS-inspired Ballari module on December 14, 2023, and has been working carefully with state police forces and central businesses to trace and apprehend members of this module.
The NIA has been actively conducting large-scale crackdowns, dismantling varied ISIS modules in current months. “A number of terror operatives have been arrested in these raids by the NIA,” the discharge talked about.