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A 20-year-old B. Pharma student from Telangana’s Bodhan was arrested by Delhi Police Special Cell in a nationwide crackdown on an alleged ISIS-inspired sleeper cell. He is among five held from different states for suspected terror links and recruitment efforts.

The NIA conducted searches at 21 locations across five states and Jammu & Kashmir in a terror conspiracy case linked to ISIS. Digital devices and documents were seized. The accused had connections with terrorist groups in Pakistan and Syria

The NIA has named M. Zoheb Khan of Maharashtra, who was arrested earlier this year (February 2024) and the Libyan M. Shoeb Khan, as the key conspirators in the terror plot linked with a module in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar to the ISIS’ global networks.

Drones and missiles remain accessible and relatively inexpensive tools for those seeking to inflict harm

This comes four days after ISIS India chief Haris Farooqi, also known as Harish Ajmal Farukhi, and his accomplice Anurag Singh, also known as Rehan, were taken into custody in the Dhubri district following their crossing from Bangladesh.

The accused, identified as Faizan Ansari alias Faiz, had taken an oath of allegiance (Bayath) to the self-styled Khalifa (leader) of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a banned global terror outfit that has been making efforts to increase its activities across India.

The case pertains to a criminal conspiracy hatched by accused persons and their associates who had pledged to the violent extremist ideology of proscribed terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda and ISIS, and had formed a terrorist gang

Of the total 44 locations being raided by the NIA since this morning, the agency sleuths searched one place in Karnataka, two in Pune, 31 in Thane Rural, nine in Thane city and one in Bhayander

The suspect fled the scene of the shooting incident on Monday night and was being searched by the Belgian police

The suspected terrorist has also been accused of his key role in the conspiracy of riots in Delhi during the CAA-NRC Protest

Several incriminating books in vernacular and Arabic languages were also seized during the searches, in addition to Rs.60 lakhs in Indian currency and 18,200 US dollars

A notebook seized from their Haji Colony (Lucknow) hideout was found to contain handwritten notes about potential targets and details about bomb-making.

NIA has announced a cash reward of Rs 3 lakh each for information about four wanted accused persons in the ISIS Pune module case

In August, the CTD arrested around 30 terrorists from banned organisations, mostly ISIS and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), during operations in different areas of Punjab.

A special NIA court in Lucknow has convicted two persons, Atif Muzaffar and Mohammed Faisal Khan, in a case related to the killing of a retired school principal

Masood is a licensed doctor in Pakistan and was formerly employed as a research coordinator at a medical clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, under an H-1B visa.

Wagner is exploring for minerals as well as fighting Islamist militants and other criminals, said Yevgeny Prigozhin

The NIA had registered the Jabalpur ISIS mode case after it was learnt that the accused persons were actively disseminating ISIS propaganda through social media and on-ground Dawah activities, the official said.

Shamil Saquib Nachan was arrested from the neighbouring Thane district on Friday, and is the seventh person to be apprehended in the case so far

Rami Abdulrahman, director of SOHR, attributed the recent uptick in violence by IS in eastern Syria to its ability to recruit informants in government-held areas.