NEW DELHI: The
National Investigation Agency
(NIA) on Tuesday carried out raids at multiple locations across seven states in connection with the case relating to radicalisation of inmates in a Bengaluru prison.
NIA teams, starting early this morning, searched the premises of several suspects in the case, spread over nearly one-and-a-half dozen locations in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Kerala, Punjab, Gujarat and West Bengal.
The recoveries from the raids include 25 mobile phones, 6 laptops and four storage devices, incriminating documents, cash and currency of multiple foreign nations.
Though the raids came a day after NIA took over the probe into Friday’s IED explosion at a Bengaluru cafe, sources ruled out any connection with the latest, low-intensity blast.
Among the suspects whose premises were subjected to raids on Tuesday are Naveed r/o Mengaluru, Syed Khail, r/o Bengaluru and Bijju, r/o Dakshina Kannada (all in Karnataka); Mayur Chakraborty r/o South 24 Parganas (West Bengal); Navjot Singh r/o Gurdaspur (Punjab); Hardik Kumar r/o Mehsana (Gujarat); Karan Kumar r/o Ahmedabad, Gujarat; Johnson, r/o Kasargod, Kerala; and Musthaq Ahmed Sathikali and Mubith, both residents of Ramnathapuram (Tamil Nadu) and Hassan Al Bassam r/o Chennai (Tamil Nadu).
The prison
radicalisation case
relates to the radicalisation of inmates of Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central prison by a Lashker e Taiba (LeT) terrorist. It was registered by Bengaluru city police following the seizure of arms and ammunition including 7 pistols, 4 hand grenades, one magazine and 45 live rounds, apart from 4 walkie-talkie sets. Later on October 25, 2023, NIA took over the case.
In a chargesheet filed in the case in January this year, NIA had named eight persons including absconding accused Junaid Ahmed and Salman Khan. NIA investigations revealed that the absconders had established a network of individuals across India to promote the activities of LeT and to route funds to various individuals anonymously.
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