Maharashtra: Gelatin sticks, detonators seized from two boats in Thane creek

Over a dozen gelatin sticks and detonators were seized from two boats in the Thane creek in Maharashtra on Tuesday an official said according to the PTIA team of the revenue department which was patrolling the creek to look for illegal sand dredging found two boats without any crew said Thane tehsildar Yuvraj Bangar as per the PTIUpon inspection 16 gelatin sticks and 17 detonators materials used in explosives were found in the boats he saidKalwa Police in Thane are probing who were the owners of the boats Bangar saidThis kind of explosives typically used for miningquarrying are also used for fishing although such a use is illegal officials saidMeanwhile in an another incidentthe National Investigation Agency NIA has announced a cash reward of Rs 3 lakh each for information about four wanted accused persons in the ISIS Pune module case an official said on Tuesday according to the PTIThe accused persons have been identified as Mohmmed Shahnawaz Shafiuzzama Alam alias Abdulla Rizwan Abdul Haji Ali Abdulla Faiyaz Shaikh alias Diaperwala and Talha Liyakat Khan the official said reported the PTIThe identity of informants will be kept secret said the NIA which is conducting a probe into the caseThe NIA recently arrested some persons for alleged active involvement in promoting activities of the terrorist organisation ISIS as part of a module based in Pune in MaharashtraThe agency had carried out raids in connection with the Pune ISIS module case and seized a host of incriminating material exposing the banned terrorist organisations conspiracy to disrupt peace and communal harmony in the country an official earlier saidThe NIA last month arrested one Shamil Saquib Nachan in the case and claimed it had seized incriminating material from his residence in Thane district and that the material exposed his conspiracy and of the other accused to spread terror and cause disruption in the countryAs per the agency Nachan had been working with five other arrested accused Zulfikar Ali Barodawala Mohammed Imran Khan Mohammed Yunus Saki Simab Nasiruddin Kazi and Abdul Kadir Pathan along with some other suspects as part of a bigger conspiracy to trigger violence across the country by fabricating and setting off improvised explosive devices IEDsThe NIA had said the accused were all members of the ISIS sleeper moduleAs per preliminary probe Nachan and the other accused had assembled IEDs in a house in Kondhwa in Pune where they had also organised and participated in a bomb IED assembly and training workshop last year the agency earlier saidThey had plans to wage a war against the Government of India in furtherance of the ISIS agenda to spread terror and violence with the goal of establishing an Islamic State in the country the NIA saidwith PTI inputs