NIA conducts searches at five locations in Mumbai, Pune

The National Investigation Agency NIA carried out searches at five different places in Maharashtras Mumbai and Pune said the officials on MondayAccording to the officials the searches are being carried out at five locations in connection to a case linked to an Islamic stateThe searches are still underway at one place in Pune and four in Mumbai said the officialsMore details are awaitedEarlier on Sunday the NIA conducted raids at five places in Bihar Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh in connection with GhazwaeHind a radicalized module being run by Pakistanbased suspectsThe agency searched one place in Darbhanga and two in Patna in Bihar one in Surat Gujarat and one in Bareilly Uttar Pradesh The raids were conducted at the premises of these suspects across three statesIncriminating material including digital devices mobile phones memory cards SIM cards and documents were seized during the raids said the NIAThe case came to light after the arrest of Marghoob Ahmad Danish alias Tahir of Phulwarisharif area of Patna district by the Bihar Police which registered it on July 14 last year The NIA took over the case and reregistered it on July 22 last year and Marghoob was chargesheeted on January 6 this year under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act 1967The accused was found to be a member of the GhazwaeHind module which was operated by Pakistanbased operatives with the objective of radicalizing impressionable youth for the establishment of GhazwaeHind over Indian territory said the NIAInvestigations revealed that Marghoob was the admin of a WhatsApp Group GhazwaeHind created by a Pakistani national named ZainMarghoob had added many Indians Pakistanis Bangladeshis and Yemeni nationals to the Group with the aim of establishing sleeper cells in the country for carrying out terrorist activities said the NIAIt further said that the accused had created various social media groups of the GhazwaeHind on WhatsApp Telegram and BiP MessengerHe had also created another WhatsApp group in the name of BDGhazwa E HindBD and had added Bangladeshi nationals to itFurther investigations showed that various suspects involved in the case were in contact with Pakistanbased handlers and were involved in propagating the idea of GhazwaeHind said the NIAFurther NIA investigations in the case are in progress added the agencyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever