NIA gets vital breakthroughs on IS attack plans in Hyderabad

​Hyderabad: With the custody of the five terror suspects arrested ending on Monday, the National Investigation Agency has extracted vital information about the plans of Islamic State (IS) in the country. The NIA had taken the accused into 14 days custody for questioning.

During investigation, the NIA found that accused Fahad had procured nine Aircel pre-activated SIM cards from a promotional temporary stall at Charminar bus stop. Subsequently he had purchased five Chinese mobile phones from a mobile shop at Charminar bus stop to use them during their planning and operations.

The agency also said that the accused Ilyas Yazdani had purchased a weighing machine from a shop at Bibi Bazaar for weighing explosive precursors and chemicals, and his brother Ibrahim Yazdani, who was leading the suspects, had used tutanota.com, a secure encryption mail to be in touch with his handler abroad. Ibrahim had used this mail, to receive the coordinates of places where logistics like weapons, urea and others were to be delivered, from the IS handler, the NIA said.

During questioning, it also found that the accused had travelled to Nanded and Anantapur, to procure weapons and funding from the s handlers of IS. On June 29, the NIA had arrested five persons, Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani alias Ibbu, Habeeb Mohammed alias Sir, Mohammed Ilyas Yazdani, Abdullah Bin Ahmed Al Amoodi alias Fahad and Muzaffar Hussain Rizwan, from various parts of Old City in Hyderabad for conspiring to carry out attacks in Hyderabad.