Maharashtra ISIS module case: NIA searches house of accused Shamil Nachan

On Thursday the National Investigation Agency NIA searched the house of Shamil Saquib Nachan the sixth person to be arrested in the Punebased ISIS module caseAccording to the NIA official they recovered incriminating material that reveals the terror organisations conspiracy to disrupt peace and communal harmony in the countryA team of NIA officials searched Nachans residence at Padgha in Thane district Nachan a member of ISISs sleeper cell was arrested by the NIA on August 11 Nachan was found involved in the fabrication and testing of Improvised Explosive Devices IEDs and participating in IED assembly and training workshops for commission of terrorist acts the NIA press statement readThe NIA officials searched Nachans residence and recovered several mobile phones hard disks and some handwritten documents that are being examined and analysed the central probe agency addedA host of incriminating material exposing the terrorist organisations conspiracy to disrupt peace and communal harmony in the country was seized it saidNachan had been working with the other accused persons arrested in the case 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 various parts of the country by fabricating and exploding the IEDs the statement addedKhan and Saki were nabbed by the police in Kothrud area of Pune City last month while stealing a motorcycle Investigation revealed that the duo was wanted by the NIA in a March 2022 Rajasthan terror plot case and they were the alleged members of the AlSufa outfit who escaped from Ratlam after NIA made some arrests in the caseThe NIA in its statement stated that the investigation in the Pune ISIS module case revealed that Nachan and other members of an ISIS sleeper cell had assembled IEDs at a house in Kondhwa in Pune where they had also organised and participated in a bomb IED assembly and training workshop last yearThey had even carried out a controlled explosion at this location to test an IED fabricated by them it addedThe conspiracy was aimed at committing terrorist acts with the aim to disturb the peace and communal harmony of the country the agency saidThe accused 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 India The NIA has been carrying out extensive raids across India to thwart the outfits terror designs and plans the statement addedwith inputs from PTI