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4 IS sympathisers held in Hyderabad
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) detained 14 suspected Islamic State (IS) sympathisers on Friday, including four in Hyderabad as part of a multi-location crackdown amid heightened security measures ahead of Republic Day celebrations.
NIA nabs 14 across nation ahead of R-day
Hyderabad/New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) detained 14 suspected Islamic State (IS) sympathisers on Friday, including four in Hyderabad as part of a multi-location crackdown amid heightened security measures ahead of Republic Day celebrations.
The NIA with the help of local police picked up four youth from different places in Hyderabad since Thursday night. Hyderabad witnessed arrests of a few IS sympathisers and an alleged recruiting agent, a woman, last year.
Three youths from the city were arrested at Nagpur airport last month when they were about to board a flight to Srinagar. Police said they were planning to go to Iraq and Syria via Pakistan and Afghanistan to join the IS. According to sources, Nafeez Khan (21), Ubaidullah Khan (22), Shareef Moinuddin (58) of Tolichowki and Abu Amas (23) living in Ayyappa Society of Madhapur were picked up on Friday.
Abu Amas is a techie, Shareef an electrician and Ubaidullah, a private employee. Two of the arrested were married, sources said. The officials seized about 1.45 kg gunpowder, IEDs (improvised explosive device), huge quantity of detonators, maps pertaining to some places and some chemicals similar to Sulphur and Jihadi material were seized from Nafeez Khan’s house.
The arrested persons had formed 'Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind', a terror group which had almost similar ideologies that of ISIS. They wanted to extend their support to IS with their activities in India. One of the terror suspect arrested in Mumbai, Munabeer Mushtaq, had reportedly told the officials that the new group wanted to carry out blasts targeting the foreigners and at residential areas.
14 held across the country
The central security agencies started cracking down on the terror suspects from Thursday late night across various states, including Karnataka, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. A total of 14 persons were arrested during the raids, for their links with Islamic State terrorists. The arrested terror suspects were all taken to NIA headquarters in Delhi for interrogation.
