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Photos: NIA Busts ISIS Module Planning Suicide Attacks; Explosives Recovered

Written By : ABP News Bureau | Updated at : 26 Dec 2018 08:50 PM (IST)

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Of the 16 detained, 10 were arrested by the agency while six are being interrogated. Five were arrested from Amroha and five from Seelampur and Jafrabad localities in north east Delhi. (PTI Photo)

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According to investigations, the module was founded about three, four months ago by Sohail who brought all its members together. They remained in touch through data-based messaging applications WhatsApp and Telegram. Surveillance of suspected members of the group started after the agency got inputs about their plans. (PTI Photo)

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The agency also recovered Rs 7.5 lakh in cash, 100 alarm clocks to be used as timer devices for bombs and 25 kilograms of bomb making ingredients -- potassium nitrate, potassium chlorate, sugar paste and sulphur. (PTI Photo)

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During the searches, the agency recovered a huge cache of handmade weapons, including a yet to be tested rocket launcher, material for suicide vests, 12 locally made pistols, hundreds of live rounds of bullets, 100 mobiles and 135 SIM cards. (PTI Photo)

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All the arrested people are in the age group of 20 to 29 years. Besides Suhail, the agency arrested Saeed, 28, Raees Ahmed, Saqib Iftekar, 26 and Mohammad Irshad from Amroha. it arrested Anas Yunus, 24, a B. Tech student of Amity University in Noida, Rashid Zafar Raq, 23, Zubair Malik, 20 and his brother Zaid Malik, 22 and Mohammad Azam, 35, from Delhi's Jafarabad area of Delhi. (PTI Photo)

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The NIA on Wednesday busted a suspected ISIS-inspired terror group and arrested 10 suspects, who it said were planning suicide attacks and serial blasts targeting politicians and government installations in Delhi and other parts of north India. (PTI Photo)

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Those arrested include the alleged mastermind, 29-year Mohammed Sohail, a 'mufti', or a Muslim legal expert empowered to give rulings on religious matters, from Amroha in western Uttar Pradesh, an engineering student in a private university in Noida and a third year graduation student in humanities as well as two welders. (PTI Photo)