Raids were conducted following a tip off about the suspicious activities of the 'terror module'.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) detained 11 people in Hyderabad and claimed to have busted a terror module with alleged connections to the dreaded Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Wednesday morning. Official sources told dna that the agency had recovered weapons and chemicals used to produce two improvised explosive devices from during raids conducted by the agency at 10 locations in Hyderabad. Agency officials also told dna that Rs 15 lakh were recovered by investigators from the residence of one of the detained individuals. All the detained individuals are in their late twenties and early thirties.
According to agency officials, an FIR was registered against five of the detained individuals on June 22 after evidence against them emerged during the course of an ongoing investigation of suspected ISIS sympathisers in India. The five detained individuals were identified as Mohamad Ilyas Yazdani (24), Ibrahim Yazdani (30), Habib Mohamad (32), Mohamad Irfan (27) and Abdullah Bin Ahmed (31). The detained men are from Amaan Nagar, Chatta Bazaar and Charminar localities of Hyderabad.
A senior NIA official said that the detained individuals were in the process of evolving into a larger group with an intent to perpetrate anti-national activities and violence using improvised explosive device. NIA further said that the detained individuals were in touch with a handler based out of areas controlled by ISIS in the Middle East but added that it was yet to be ascertained that the main contact person of the sleeper cell was Shafi Armar who is believed to be in touch with the ISIS module that was busted earlier this year.
According to agency officials, raids were conducted following a tip off about the suspicious activities of the 'terror module'.
"NIA with the help of local Police has conducted searches at 10 locations in Hyderabad city today morning. The searches are still going on," said SK Singh, IG, NIA. He added "Weapons, explosives material, cash have been recovered so far along with several electronic devices that include laptops, SIM cards, tablets and pen drives. The recovered material will be sent for examination."
The official, while speaking on the nature of weapons and explosives material allegedly recovered from the detained individuals, said that the suspects had acquired chemicals used to create explosive devices. The agency claimed to have recovered two 9mm pistols, air guns, targets used for shooting practice and nails used for the purpose of making IED.
According to agency officials, the detained are currently being questioned and further action will be taken accordingly. The agency said initially it had received information on five individuals thus the FIR was registered against them.
If investigators are convinced that the other six detained on Wednesday morning also are part of the ISIS module, they will be placed under arrested along with those names in FIR.
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