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n a major nationwide swoop ahead of Republic Day, the NIA has arrested 13 suspected ISIS sympathisers for plotting attacks in different parts of the country intended to target foreign tourists and policemen.

The NIA had picked a total of 14 people on Friday. Of the 14 suspects detained on Friday, 13 have been arrested, a home ministry official told TOI.

The busted module, comprising former operatives of jihadi outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM) -- who have switched allegiance to the Islamic State -- calls itself 'Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind'. It was planning to procure weapons and explosives for its strikes, according to a home ministry spokesperson.

Janood's alleged head, computer programmer Mudabbir Mushtaq Shaikh from Mumbra near Mumbai, is among those arrested.

The terror plot, uncovered just days after Delhi Police busted another ISIS-inspired module in Uttarakhand, marked another step in the transformation of ISIS from just a potential threat to a serious security challenge for India.

While ISIS, with its adept use of technology, has been successful in getting a few radicalised youth from India to fight for it in Syria and Iraq, this is the first evidence that its influence is being linked to plans to carry out terror strikes within India.

Terror crackdown: In countrywide swoop, NIA arrests 13 men linked to Islamic State - Times of India
 
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While some of those arrested are students, others are employees in various companies. (Reuters photo)

NEW DELHI: Thirteen of the 14 people who were picked up by the National Investigation Agency yesterday as suspected sympathisers of ISIS have been arrested, the Home Ministry said today. Five of them had been arrested yesterday by the NIA as part of a nationwide anti-terror sweep ahead of Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
Here are the 10 developments:
  1. The arrests were made following simultaneous searches and raids at 12 locations across six cities on Friday - Bengaluru, Tumkur and Mangalore in Karnataka, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Lucknow.
  2. Abu Anas, one of the men who was arrested in Hyderabad yeserday, works with a software company. The 25-year-old was on leave for a month, citing poor health, say investigators.
  3. Two kilograms of ammonium nitrate and certain incriminating articles including jihadi literature and videos and material for preparation of bombs were recovered from the other suspects taken into custody from Tolichowki area in Hyderabad, investigators said.
  4. While some of those arrested are students, others are employees in various companies.
  5. All of them had been under surveillance for over six months now and the arrests were made amid indications that an ISIS network is coming up across the country, sources said.
  6. "These individuals were planning and making efforts to establish a channel of procurement of explosives/weapons, identify locations to organize training camps including training of firearms, motivate new recruits to target police officers, foreigners in India and to carry out terrorist activities in various parts of India," the NIA said in a statement on Friday.
  7. The Delhi Police detained a terror suspect from Roorkee in Uttarakhand today after interrogating four men who were arrested from the state on Wednesday for alleged links to the ISIS, according to news agency ANI.
  8. The four were allegedly planning to attack the ongoing Kumbh Mela at Haridwar in Uttar Pradesh, trains headed there, as well as strategic locations in the national capital, the police had said.
  9. Security agencies want to prevent a Paris-style attack, where the terrorists were under surveillance and yet managed to strike. ISIS gunmen had attacked Paris in November, killing 130 people in a cafe, rock concert and other public places.
  10. At a recent security review chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, officials concluded there is a "very real" ISIS threat for Republic Day, when French President Francois Hollande will officiate as chief guest at the parade in the capital.
13 Suspected ISIS Sympathisers Arrested In Nationwide Terror Crackdown
 
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