Raid in full swing, NIA conducts new search operations to completely expose the ISIS terror module

New Delhi, January 18: Leaving no stones unturned and continuing the probe in full swing, the National Investigation Agency on Thursday conducted fresh searches in seven places in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab in connection with the ongoing probe into the Islamic State (IS)-inspired module called as ‘Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam.

The searches were conducted at Rampur, Bulandshahr, Meerut, Hapur, Amroha in Uttar Pradesh and Ludhiana in Punjab.

Earlier, last year, on December 28, the NIA announced that it had busted an IS-inspired module consisting of members from Delhi and western Uttar Pradesh. The agency has arrested about a dozen accused in connection with the case. The fresh searches come five days after the probe agency arrested a suspect named Muhammad Absar from Hapur district for having alleged links to the global outfit. Earlier, on January 4, Naeem, the alleged arms supplier of the Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam, was arrested from Meerut.

Arrests in connection with the case began on December 26, when 10 members, including an alleged mastermind Mufti Mohammad Suhail of the new IS module, were arrested from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh during raids at 17 places. NIA also arrested 10 people including the group head Mufti Mohammad Suhail as they were allegedly planning terror attacks targeting some political personalities, security establishments and crowded places in Delhi and the national capital region.

 

National Investigation Agency (NIA) today picked up a madrasa teacher from a mosque in Ludhiana in connection with an ISIS-inspired module. The NIA sleuths accompanied by Punjab police raided the Madhni Jama Masjid at Rahon road during wee hours and detained Mohammad Owais Pasha who was employed as a Madrasa teacher and Maulvi at the mosque. According to head of the mosque, Owais had come to Ludhiana from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh for the job. The NIA agency men also took away the CCTV cameras installed at the masjid.