Hyderabad: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed that the five persons arrested here on Wednesday were in touch with Islamic State militants in Middle East.
According to the central probe agency, all the five were getting ‘specific instructions’ from the terror group on planning and executing terror activities in many parts of the country.
The NIA today produced the accused Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani alias Ibbu, Habeeb Mohammed alias Sir, Mohammed Ilyas Yazdani, Abdullah Bin Ahmed Al Amoodi and Muzaffar Hussain Rizwan before the third Metropolitian Sessions Judge court here which sent them to 14-day judicial custody.
The agency’s application for their custody for interrogation is likely to come up for hearing on Thursday.
The remand report submitted to the court said the accused had also acquired weapons and explosive materials to carry out violent terrorist attacks and were in touch with the ISIS.
Following its prior investigation, on June 22 NIA had lodged an FIR for "criminal conspiracy to wage war against the Government of India" by collecting weapons and explosive materials by targeting public places, religious sites and sensitive government buildings in various parts of India.
According to the Central agency, the gang was preparing improvised explosive devices for carrying out blasts, and was being guided by an online handler, suspected to be based in Iraq/Syria.
Along with explosive materials, the agency recovered two semi-automatic pistols with ammunition, an air gun with telescopic sight and shooting practice target boards, a large number of digital gadgets including six laptops, about 40 mobile phones, 32 SIM cards, and a large number of hard disks, memory cards, pen drives and tabs during its searches.
With PTI Inputs
