In a large crackdown on the ISIS terrorist organisation, the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) arrested 15 of its operatives on Saturday throughout Maharashtra and Karnataka, in keeping with an official. The arrested suspects included the chief of an ISIS module who was administering the ‘bayath’ (oath of allegiance) to recruits, an official assertion issued by the federal anti-terror company stated.
NIA Swoops Down on 44 Places in M’Rashtra & Okay’Nataka, Arrests 15 ISIS Operatives of ISIS Maharashtra Module pic.twitter.com/bcvJBOIA3M
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A number of NIA groups swooped down on as many as 44 areas in Maharashtra, together with Padgha-Borivali, Thane, Mira Highway, and Pune, and Karnataka, together with Bengaluru, early Saturday morning, and apprehended the 15 accused for allegedly selling terror and terror-related acts and actions of the proscribed organisation, in keeping with the assertion.
The raids seized massive quantities of unaccounted money, firearms, sharp-edged weapons, incriminating paperwork, good telephones, and different digital units as a part of the NIA’s ongoing efforts to disrupt and demolish the makes an attempt of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also referred to as the Islamic State, to hold out violent acts of terror and take harmless lives, the assertion stated.
Based on the assertion, the accused have been actively concerned in numerous terrorist actions, together with the fabrication of improvised explosive units, with a view to additional ISIS’s violent and harmful agenda.
“The investigations revealed that the accused, all members of the ISIS Maharashtra module, have been working from Padgha-Borivali, the place they plotted to unfold terror and commit acts of violence throughout India. Pursuing the trail of violent jihad (holy struggle), Khilafat, ISIS and so forth., the accused had aimed to disturb the peace and communal concord of the nation and to wage a struggle towards the Authorities of India,” a the assertion stated.
Based on the assertion, preliminary investigations revealed that the arrested accused had declared the village of Padgha in rural Thane a “liberated zone” and “Al Sham”.
They have been encouraging impressionable Muslim youths to relocate from their present location with a view to strengthen the Padgha base, the official stated, as per the assertion.
Based on the assertion, Saqib Nachan, the primary accused and the chief of the ISIS module, was additionally administering ‘bayath’ (oath of allegiance to the Khalifa of ISIS) to these becoming a member of the banned organisation.
Based on the assertion, ISIS has been increasing its terror community in India by establishing localised ISIS modules and cells in numerous states.
The company filed a case towards the ISIS Maharashtra module earlier this 12 months and has since taken robust and coordinated actions to destroy numerous ISIS modules and networks working all through the nation, in keeping with the assertion.
Based on the assertion, the NIA has carried out large-scale raids in current months and busted numerous ISIS modules by arresting a number of terror operatives within the ISIS terror conspiracy case in an effort to scuttle the organisation’s heinous and violent anti-India agenda.