ISIS module case: NIA conducts follow-up raids in UP\'s Amroha



ISIS module case: NIA conducts follow-up raids in UP's Amroha

Amroha:

NIA conducting raids at 5 locations in connection with ISIS module case of last week

National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday carried out the follow-up searches at five locations in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha in connection with the ISIS module case of last week, officials said.

A team of NIA and UP ATS reached Saidpura village of Amroha Tuesday morning to carry out raids. It had last week arrested two brothers from the same village when it had carried out searches in Delhi and Amroha in connection with an Islamic State-inspired module -- ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam (War for the cause of Islam). 

The counter-terror probe agency had arrested as many as 10 people including the group head Mufti Mohammad Suhail, as they were allegedly planning to launch terror attacks targeting some political personalities and security establishments, as well as crowded places of the capital and its surrounding regions.

The NIA identified Mufti Suhail alias Hazrath, a native of Amroha, as the mastermind of the module.

According to an NIA statement, the 29-year-old was working as 'mufti' in a mosque in Amroha. He stayed at East Delhi's Jaffrabad and allegedly tasked other team members to procure arms, explosives and other accessories to prepare IEDs and pipe-bombs, said the NIA.

The arrested accused are NIA custody for 12 days as the agency is trying to unearth the conspiracy for which there were intelligence inputs.

"The seized items include 25 kg of explosive material, such as potassium nitrate, ammonium nitrate, sulfur, sugar material paste, 12 pistols, 150 rounds of live ammunition, one country- made rocket launcher, 112 alarm clocks, mobile phone circuits, batteries, 51 pipes, remote control car triggering switch, wireless digital doorbell for remote switch, steel containers, electric wires, 91 mobile phones, 134 SIM cards, three laptops, knife, sword, ISIS-related literature and cash amount of Rs 7.5 lakh approximately," NIA said in the statement. 

The agency carried out another batch of searches at a few places in Delhi’s Jafarabad and Seelampur and Amroha on Sunday. An official said that the agency also questioned five suspects, however, no one was arrested. 

(With ANI inputs)