The module was busted on December 9 after the NIA investigators acquired leads from their probe into the operations of three alleged ISIS operatives — Shahnawaz Alam, Mohammad Rizwan Ashraf and Mohammad Arshad Warsi — who had been arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police in October. The NIA had taken over the probe in November on the instructions of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs.

During investigation, financial institution particulars of the three alleged ISIS operatives and their associates had been scanned resulting in the detection of a typical sample, mentioned an intelligence officer who didn’t need to be named. “While scanning their accounts, they found a common source from which money was regularly coming to their accounts. After further investigation and questioning of the arrested persons, it emerged that a man who lived in Noida and worked as a clerk in the financial department of the Northern Railways was in constant touch with the operatives. It was found that they had allegedly radicalised him,” the officer mentioned.

The clerk is at the moment absconding and a number of businesses are trying to find him.

Although a transparent image of his modus operandi will emerge solely after his detention, a supply mentioned the Railways clerk had filed a number of solid medical payments and put the account numbers of alleged ISIS operatives into which the cash can be deposited.

“The Northern Railways was informed about this and they have filed a complaint with Delhi Police at Parliament Street Police Station, alleging an internal fraud and seeking an FIR against the clerk. But they did not mention anything about his nexus with the alleged ISIS terrorists,” the supply mentioned.

All the 15 arrested ISIS operatives are from Thane district of Maharashtra. The NIA claimed that the module was headed by Saquib Nachan, 63, the principle accused. According to the NIA, Nachan administered the oath of allegiance to the youth becoming a member of the fear organisation. The module, it claimed, was planning to hold out terror actions throughout the nation.

“The investigations have revealed that the accused, all members of ISIS Maharashtra module, were operating from Padgha-Borivali, where they had hatched the conspiracy to spread terror and carry out acts of violence across India. Pursuing the path of violent jihad, Khilafat, ISIS etc, the accused had aimed to disturb the peace and communal harmony of the country and wage a war against the Government of India,” the NIA mentioned in an announcement.

Nachan had been beneath the radar of the safety businesses because the Nineteen Nineties. He was booked in additional than a dozen terror circumstances and convicted twice. In 1997, the Supreme Court convicted him of planning terror assaults within the early Nineteen Nineties together with Khalistani terrorists. He was additionally booked within the 2002-03 blasts in Mumbai, and convicted in 2016 once more for 10 years by a Mumbai courtroom beneath the Arms Act. He served each the sentences and was launched in 2017.

Earlier, his son Shamil Nachan was arrested by the NIA within the Maharashtra ISIS module associated terror case.

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