Eight terrorists linked to an Islamic State module in Karnataka’s Ballari have been arrested and plans to set off IED blasts foiled, the Nationwide Investigation Company stated Monday after raids this morning in 19 areas throughout 4 states, together with Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra and Delhi.
Caches of explosive supplies, equivalent to sulphur, potassium nitrate, and gunpowder, in addition to weapons and paperwork with particulars of proposed strikes have been recovered, the anti-terror company stated. The NIA additionally recovered sharp-edged weapons like daggers, money, and digital units.
The chief of the Ballari module – Minaz, also referred to as Mohammed Sulaiman – is amongst those that had been arrested in these ops, which had been carried out by the NIA and police in Karnataka’s Ballari and Bengaluru, in Pune and Mumbai in Maharashtra, and Delhi, in addition to Jharkhand’s Bokaro.
The terrorists, who used IM apps to speak with one another, deliberate to make use of the explosive supplies to create IEDs, or improvised explosive units, to hold out, as but unspecified, terror acts.
They reportedly additionally focused school college students to radicalise and recruit.
The NIA case towards the Ballari module was filed final week. Since then, the company has been working intently with state police and different central companies to trace down and apprehend the terrorists.
Final week, the NIA raided over 40 areas in Maharashtra and arrested 15 individuals, considered one of whom was the chief of a module, and was administering an oath of allegiance to new recruits. There have been additionally raids in Bengaluru in a associated case – one linked to radicalisation by a Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist
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The company additionally raided areas in Bihar, Jharkhand, and Madhya Pradesh, and recovered an Indian Military uniform, in addition to arms and ammunition, money and jewellery, and different incriminating proof.
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It stated the arrested suspects had been “cadres and sympathisers of PLFI (Folks’s Liberation Entrance of India, a banned group)”, and that they had been concerned in a conspiracy to commit terrorist actions.
The NIA stated its probe revealed PLFI cadres had been extorting cash from coal merchants and different businessmen in Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Odisha to finance their terror actions.
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