Strong move against terrorism! NIA detains 6 TN men in connection with Sri Lanka Easter blasts

13 Jun 2019 15:02:30

 
Coimbatore, Jun 13: NIA is helping Sri Lankan agencies to find culprits of Easter blasting. In this quest, NIA yesterday raided 6 places in Coimbatore, during this raids, the National Investigation Agency has detained 6 people from Coimbatore.
 
The accused aged between 26 and 32 were allegedly involved in propagating the ideology of banned terror group ISIS with the intention of recruiting vulnerable youth for terrorist activities.
 
 
 
NIA said, the main accused in the case, 32-year-old Mohammed Azarudeen is a Facebook friend of Zahran Hashim, a suicide bomber and alleged mastermind of the Sri Lanka Easter terror attack. He has been detained by the NIA, taken to Kochi and will be arrested and remanded to judicial custody. 
 
According to the NIA press release, “The accused persons and their associates were propagating the ideology of proscribed terrorist organization ISIS/ Daish on social media with the intention of recruiting vulnerable youth into the ISIS/ Daish for carrying out terrorist attacks in south India especially in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. 
 
According to the press release, during the searches conducted on the residences of the accused, the NIA found -14 mobile phones, 29 SIM cards, 10 pen drives, 3 laptops, 6 memory cards, 4 hard disc drives, 1 internet dongle, and 13 CDs/ DVDs. In addition to this, they recovered a dagger, an electric baton, 300 air-gun pellets and a large no. of incriminating documents. A few PFI/ SDMI pamphlets were seized from the houses and workplaces of accused persons.
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