Massive Raids In Maharashtra, Karnataka

The 40 places being raided include Thane, Pune, and Mira Bhayandar…

On Saturday, 09 December 2023, the central anti-terror agency raided 40 locations in Maharashtra and arrested 13 people in connection with an ISIS terror module case.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) also raided another place in Karnataka in the case.

Sources said; the 40 different places being raided in Maharashtra include Thane, Pune, and Mira Bhayandar, sources said. Most of these places are in Thane Rural (31) and Thane City (9), next to Mumbai. In Pune, two places are being raided and one in Mira Bhayandar, they added.

A suspect - Aakif Ateeque Nachan - allegedly involved in making explosives was arrested August 2022, the sixth accused to be ever arrested in an ISIS terror module case.

Five others are -- Tabish Nasser Siddiqui from Mumbai, Zubair Noor Mohammed Shaikh alias Abu Nusaiba and Adnan Sarkar from Pune, and Sharjeel Shaikh and Zulfikar Ali Barodawala from Thane -- were arrested by the agency in the month of October.