The NIA had said the agency has taken all the accused to various places to verify the evidence collected against them during the investigation.
After a big push for India's national security with passage of the National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill, 2019, in both houses of Parliament, the country's federal terror investigation agency took on a terror outfit on Saturday, carrying out raids at 14 places across Tamil Nadu. The agency is probing into a new terror module, Ansarullah, in Tamil Nadu, which supported and raised funds for the ISIS and al-Qaeda terror outfits.
The searches come a day after a special NIA court granted the probe agency eight-day custody of 16 people arrested for allegedly attempting to set up the terror outfit -- Ansarullah. Of the 16, as many as 14 were arrested after they were deported to India last week by Saudi Arabia for attempting to set up Ansarullah in Tamil Nadu. Two of them were arrested from the state itself on July 13.
The agency had registered a case based on credible information that the "accused and their associates, owing allegiance to the proscribed terrorist organisations ISIS/ Daish, al Qaeda and Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), within and beyond India, had conspired and made preparations to wage war against the Government of India by forming the terrorist gang Ansarullah".
The raids were carried out at the residences of 14 deported accused in this case who are identified as Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohamed Sheik Maitheen, Meeran Ghani, Gulam Nabi Asath, Ahamed Azarudhen, Toufiq Ahmed, Mohamed Ibrahim, Mohammed Afzar, Rafi Ahamed, Munthasir, Umar Barook, Mohideen Seeni Shahul Hameed, Faizal Sharief and Farook.
The NIA had said the agency has taken all the accused to various places to verify the evidence collected against them during the investigation.
"The accused and their associates had collected funds and made preparations to carry out terrorist attacks in India, with the intention of establishing Islamic rule in India," NIA said.
The probing agency further pointed out that the arrested accused have been actively recruiting individuals to strike terror in India and have also been disseminating videos and other jihadi propaganda material, exhorting their supporters to conduct terrorist attacks through various methods, including the use of explosives, poison, knives and vehicles, as means of attack.
During the searches, a laptop, seven mobiles, five SIM cards, three memory cards, a hard disk drive, two pen drives, an internet dongle, nine CDs and DVDs and about 50 documents have been seized.
The agency claimed that there are other accused people involved in the terror outfit Ansarullah, and they will be soon be able to identify and nab them.
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