New Delhi: Days after 10 busting an Islamic State (IS) module arresting 10 people from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, the National Investigation (NIA) carried out fresh searches at several places in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and took five suspects into custody into the new IS module of Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam.
According to a senior official, the NIA had carried out searches at few places in east Delhi’s Jafarabad area on Sunday. Besides that, raids were carried in Amroha from where five suspected sleeper cell of IS were taken into custody for questioning. “Apart from the arrests made from Amroha, the NIA has also called in a few individuals from Delhi to unearth the entire conspiracy hatched by the suspected terrorist group to carry out attacks in the Delhi and other places,” said the official.
It may be recalled that the counter-terror probe agency had arrested 10 people including the group head Mufti Suhail as they were allegedly planning to carry out terror attacks targeting some political personalities and security establishments as well as crowded places in Delhi and the national capital region (NCR).
The NIA had on December 26 carried out searches at over 17 places in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh’s Amroha, Lucknow, Meerut and Hapur.
During the searches, the NIA had recovered a country-made rocket launcher, 12 pistols, 112 alarm clocks, 100 mobile phones, 135 SIM cards, many laptops and various electronic gadgets, besides recovering 150 rounds of ammunition and an indigenously made rocket launcher.
The NIA had also seized 25 kg of explosive material, such as potassium nitrate, ammonium nitrate, sulphur, sugar material paste, mobile phone circuits, batteries, 51 pipes, remote control car triggering switch, wireless digital doorbell for remote switch, steel containers, electric wires, knife, sword, IS-related literature and Rs 7.5 lakh in cash.
Besides Suhail, the NIA arrested Saeed, 28, Raees Ahmed, Saqib Iftekar, 26 and Mohammad Irshad from Amroha.
Among the other accused are Anas Yunus, 24, a B Tech student of Amity University in Noida, Rashid Zafar Raq, 23, Zubair Malik, 20 and his brother Zaid Malik, 22 and Mohammad Azam, 35, from Delhi’s Jafarabad area.