NIA arrests two suspected ISIS members from Bengaluru
Bengaluru: The National Investigation Agency has arrested two suspected members of the city-based ISIS module, which was allegedly involved in the radicalization of youth and funding their trip to Syria to join the terror outfit.
Ahamed Abdul Cader (40), hailing from Ramanathapuram district in Tamil Nadu, and Irfan Nasir (33) from Frazer town here were arrested by the NIA sleuths on Wednesday.
The NIA action comes weeks after the agency busted the terror module with the arrest of a doctor here.
In continuing with the investigation, the sleuths conducted searches on the premises of Cader and Nasir in Gurappana Palya and Frazer town and recovered incriminating material and electronic devices from their possession.
While Cader is a business analyst in a bank in Chennai, Nasir is a rice merchant here, the NIA said in a statement.
The duo was produced before Special NIA Court here, which granted 10 days of custody to the agency for interrogation.
During the investigation of a case taken up by the NIA on September 19, certain incriminating facts emerged about a Bengaluru-based ISIS module, the agency said.
It got a lead with the arrest of a doctor in Bengaluru.
During his examination, the names of those who had traveled to Syria in 2013-14 to join ISIS surfaced.
"Further investigations resulted in busting of a module wherein it was revealed that Cader, Nasir, and their associates were members of Hizb-ut-Tehrir. They had formed a group called 'Quran Circle,' which radicalized gullible Muslim youth in Bengaluru and funded their visit to the conflict zone in Syria to aid and assist the ISIS terrorists," the NIA said.
The NIA also stated that they had played a very significant role in the radicalization of the members of the group and arranged funds through donations and own sources for the visit of the doctor and other Muslim youth from Bengaluru to Syria to join ISIS.
"Two such youth got killed in Syria," the NIA claimed.
"Further investigation in the case is continued to unearth the larger conspiracy," the NIA said.
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Man arrested with Rs 2.54-crore heroin in Mumbai
Mumbai (PTI): Police have arrested a man and seized over 500 grams of heroin worth Rs 2.54 crore in the illicit market from him in Mumbai, officials said on Friday.
The police's Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) made the drug seizure in Santacruz in the western suburbs. The operation was conducted by the Kandivali unit of the ANC on Thursday as part of a special crackdown against drug trafficking in the area, they said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ANC team conducted a raid in Santacruz (East) and intercepted a man. During a search, the team recovered 508 grams of high-grade heroin from his possession, an official said.
The seized contraband, a highly addictive, opioid drug derived from morphine, is estimated to be worth Rs 2.54 crore in the international market, he informed.
Following the seizure, a case was registered against the man under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, and he was formally placed under arrest in the early hours of Friday.
The police are currently investigating the source of the drug and trying to identify the intended recipients of the consignment, he said.
