Raids on ISIS Terror Module In Maharashtra, Karnataka, 13 Arrested

The National Investigating Agency (NIA) 43 locations in Maharashtra and another location in Karnataka on Saturday morning and arrested 13 people in connection with an ISIS terror module case.

The 40 different places raided in Maharashtra were in Thane Rural (31) and Thane city (9), right next to Mumbai. In Pune, two places are being raided and one in Mira Bhayandar.

A suspect – Aakif Ateeque Nachan – allegedly involved in making explosives was arrested last August, the sixth accused to be ever arrested in an ISIS terror module case.

Five others — Tabish Nasser Siddiqui from Mumbai, Zubair Noor Mohammed Shaikh alias Abu Nusaiba and Adnan Sarkar from Pune, and Sharjeel Shaikh and Zulfikar Ali Barodawala from Thane — were arrested by the agency last month.