The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is searching around 60 locations in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala in a big crackdown on people linked to the illegal terror group ISIS, according to reports.
They claimed searches are being conducted in connection with last year’s blasts in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore and Karnataka’s Mangaluru.
Jameza Mubin, who was questioned by the central anti-terror agency in 2019 over alleged ISIS links, was killed in the Coimbatore blast last year in October.
Police said Mubin was operating a vehicle with two open cylinders when one of them burst. After a search of his home, “low-intensive explosive material” was found there.
According to C Sylendra Babu, the chief of police for Tamil Nadu, them appeared to be intended for “future plans.”
The November 19 auto-rickshaw blast in Mangaluru, which left two persons injured, including the primary suspect, was handed over to NIA in December of the previous year.
When the low-intensity improvised explosive device, or IED, that Mohammad Shareeq was carrying exploded, it is believed that he had also attempted to manufacture a bomb in September. Inside the car, a burned pressure cooker with batteries was discovered.
The explosion, according to Karnataka police, was not an accident but rather a “act of terror with the purpose to do catastrophic damage.”
The auto-rickshaw explosion was blamed on the “Islamic Resistance Council,” an organisation that calls itself that.
The letter, which was written in English and displayed Shareeq’s photograph, said that he had “attempted to attack the Hindutva Temple in Kadri, a bastion of the Saffron terrorists in Mangalore.”
In order to develop the ISIS terror cell in South India, Shareeq allegedly travelled to forest areas in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala in November.
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