Pune:
The Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) has arrested two operatives of the banned terrorist outfit ISIS, who have been a part of a sleeper module concerned within the fabrication and testing of Improvised Explosive Units (IEDs) in Pune, Maharashtra.
The arrests have been made in reference to a 2023 terror conspiracy case.
The accused, Abdullah Faiyaz Shaikh alias Diaperwala, and Talha Khan, have been intercepted at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Worldwide Airport Terminal 2 by the Bureau of Immigration.
The 2 had been hiding in Jakarta, Indonesia, and have been taken into custody by the NIA upon arrival in India.
In line with the NIA, the 2 had been on the run for over two years and have been needed in reference to Case RC-05/2023/NIA/MUM. Non-bailable warrants had been issued in opposition to them by the NIA Particular Court docket in Mumbai, and a money reward of Rs 3 lakh every was introduced for data resulting in their arrest.
The NIA stated the case pertains to a bigger conspiracy by ten people, together with the 2 just lately arrested, to hold out terrorist actions and wage struggle in opposition to the Authorities of India.
“That they had conspired to commit terrorist acts with the purpose to disturb India’s peace and communal concord by waging a struggle in opposition to the Authorities of India in furtherance of the ISIS agenda to determine Islamic rule within the nation via violence and terror,” the company acknowledged.
Abdullah Faiyaz Shaikh had rented a home in Kondhwa, Pune, which was used as a hub for assembling IEDs.
The NIA stated that in 2022 and 2023, the accused not solely fabricated IEDs but in addition carried out coaching workshops in bomb making and even carried out a managed explosion to check certainly one of their gadgets.
The investigative company, which has been actively working to dismantle ISIS-linked networks working in India, had beforehand filed a chargesheet in opposition to all ten accused below varied provisions of the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act, Explosive Substances Act, Arms Act, and the Indian Penal Code.
Along with Abdullah Faiyaz Shaikh and Talha Khan, the opposite eight accused presently in judicial custody embrace Mohammed Imran Khan, Mohammed Yunus Saki, Abdul Kadir Pathan, Simab Nasiruddin Kazi, Zulfikar Ali Barodawala, Shamil Nachan, Akif Nachan, and Shahnawaz Alam.
The NIA stated that investigations within the case are ongoing.
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