NIA gets 10-day custody of man arrested for supplying weapons to ISIS-inspired terrorist group

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

A court Friday granted the 10-day custody of Naeem, arrested for allegedly providing weapons to members of a suspected ISIS-inspired group busted after a multi-city swoop last week.

then sent Naeem to 10-day NIA custody.

Naeem, the probe agency says, supplied weapons to the members of a suspected Islamic State-inspired group, arrested on December 26.

The NIA arrested the 10 men, including a 'mufti' from Amroha, also in western Uttar Pradesh, who it said were planning suicide attacks and serial blasts targeting politicians and installations in and other parts of

The NIA had seized a locally made rocket launcher, material for suicide vests and 112 alarm clocks to be used as timers during its searches in and

A previously allowed the NIA 10 days' custodial interrogation of the men after it produced them before it on December 27, a day after they were arrested.

Those arrested included the alleged mastermind, 29-year-old Mohammed Suhail, a Muslim legal expert empowered to give rulings on religious matters, from Amroha, and an engineering student of in Noida and a third-year undergraduate student in humanities of a university in Delhi as well as two welders, according to NIA officials.

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First Published: Fri, January 04 2019. 16:30 IST