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January - 3 
The National Investigation Agency [NIA] on January 3 arrested Naeem [21]—an Arms supplier to the operatives of Islamic State [IS]-inspired group—Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam [HuHI] from Meerut, reports Business Standard. Allegedly, Naeem was an Arms supplier to the 10 operatives of HuHI arrested by the NI
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The National Investigation Agency [NIA] on January 3 arrested Naeem [21]—an Arms supplier to the operatives of Islamic State [IS]-inspired group—Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam [HuHI] from Meerut, reports Business Standard. Allegedly, Naeem was an Arms supplier to the 10 operatives of HuHI arrested by the NIA on December 26.
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January - 4 
The Supreme Court (SC) on January 4 rejected the plea of Syed Shahid Yousuf, son of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) founder and a ‘specially designated global terrorist’ Syed Salahuddin, challenging the Delhi High Court order dismissing his bail petition in a terror funding case, reports The Tribune. The SC
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The Supreme Court (SC) on January 4 rejected the plea of Syed Shahid Yousuf, son of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) founder and a ‘specially designated global terrorist’ Syed Salahuddin, challenging the Delhi High Court order dismissing his bail petition in a terror funding case, reports The Tribune. The SC said that once the trial court had granted extension of time to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to complete the investigation in the case, the accused was not entitled to statutory bail.
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January - 6 
Indian agencies will have to wait a little longer before Tahawwur Rana, a key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case is extradited from US, reports The Hindu on January 6. National Investigation Agency (NIA) team that was in the U.S. a few days ago to seek the extradition of Rana, a close as
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Indian agencies will have to wait a little longer before Tahawwur Rana, a key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack case is extradited from US, reports The Hindu on January 6. National Investigation Agency (NIA) team that was in the U.S. a few days ago to seek the extradition of Rana, a close associate of David Coleman Headley, has been given an indication that Rana has to first complete his jail sentence. Rana, who was arrested in 2009, is serving a 14-year prison term in the U.S. for providing material support to terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which planned and executed the attacks.Though he was sentenced to 14 years in jail in 2013 by a U.S. district court, his jail term would also include the period he has already served in prison and would come to an end in 2023. A senior official stated that ‘NIA team went to the U.S. in relation to the extradition request of Rana. It’s a quasi-judicial process so no one can predict when he would be extradited. He is now serving a sentence there and we have been assured that the extradition could take place closer to the date when he completes his jail sentence in the U.S.’ Minister of State Gen. V.K. Singh (retired) told the Lok Sabha last week that the Government of India had engaged with relevant U.S. authorities, under terms of the India-U.S. Extradition Treaty of 1997, for extradition of U.S.-based individuals for their role in the November 26, 2008, terrorist attacks in Mumbai. The Minister also added that ‘These consultations have been held by means of meetings/visits and teleconferences. Most recently, a team from the NIA visited the U.S. on December 13-15, 2018, for discussion with the U.S. authorities. The ‘double jeopardy’ clause in U.S. law prohibits punishment for the same crime twice, so India renewed its bid to seek Rana’s custody on the ground that he was actively involved in planning an attack on the National Defence College in Delhi and Chabad Houses (Jewish religious centres) in several cities.Rana, a Chicago-based businessman, helped Headley open an immigration firm in Mumbai, which was a cover to conduct reconnaissance on possible targets that were attacked on November 26, 2008.Rana was a school friend of Headley from Pakistan. According to the FBI, after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Headley visited India again in March 2009 to conduct additional surveillance, including of the National Defence College (NDC) in Delhi and of Chabad Houses.NIA also has registered a forgery case against Rana for opening the immigration centre based on fake documents.
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January - 7 
A Delhi Court on January 7 extended National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody of five of the 10 people arrested on suspicion of being members of Islamic State (IS) module, reports The Hindu. The court remanded the other five accused in judicial custody after the agency said they were not required
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A Delhi Court on January 7 extended National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody of five of the 10 people arrested on suspicion of being members of Islamic State (IS) module, reports The Hindu. The court remanded the other five accused in judicial custody after the agency said they were not required for custodial interrogation. The group was reportedly planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting politicians as also government installations, in Delhi and other parts of north India. The court extended the NIA custody of Mufti Mohammed Suhail alias Hazrath (29) and Saqib Iftekar (26) till January 12.Zubair Malik (20), Rashid Zafar Raq alias Zafar (23) and Anas Yunus (24) were sent to further custodial interrogation till January 10.The others — Zubair’s brother Zaid (22), Saeed alias Sayeed (28), his brother Raees Ahmad, Mohammed Irshad (in late 20s) and Mohammed Azam (35) — were sent to judicial custody till February till February after the NIA did not seek their further remand.They were earlier produced before the court on December 27 after which they were sent to 10-day NIA custody which expired on January 7.The probe agency had initially rounded up 16 persons of the group ‘Harkat ul Harb e Islam’, which loosely translates into war for the cause of Islam.Of the 16 detained, 10 were later arrested — five from Amroha, in Uttar Pradesh (U.P) and five from Seelampur and Jafrabad localities in north-east Delhi.
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January - 8 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) which is probing into the attack on YSR Congress President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy (on October 25, 2018) has reportedly filed a petition in the Vijayawada NIA Special Court, requesting for transfer of the case as well as the related records to it, reports The Hindu o
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) which is probing into the attack on YSR Congress President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy (on October 25, 2018) has reportedly filed a petition in the Vijayawada NIA Special Court, requesting for transfer of the case as well as the related records to it, reports The Hindu on January 9.Vijayawada NIA Special Court judge has directed the Visakhapatnam VIIth Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Court to transfer the case and the relevant records to NIA with immediate effect.
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January - 9 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case against around 7-8 youths hailing from Kerala and Karnataka but based in Qatar who travelled to or prepared for travel to Syria since 2013 to join terrorist outfits Jund al-Aqsa (JAA) and Jabhat-ul-Nusra, reports The Hindu on January 9. Jund
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case against around 7-8 youths hailing from Kerala and Karnataka but based in Qatar who travelled to or prepared for travel to Syria since 2013 to join terrorist outfits Jund al-Aqsa (JAA) and Jabhat-ul-Nusra, reports The Hindu on January 9. Jund al-Aqsa, a militant group operating primarily in Idlib and Hama provinces of Syria, was proscribed in 2017 by the UN for being associated with the Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaida in Iraq.The youths are believed to have been radicalised while living in Qatar and had conducted preparations for or travelled to Syria from 2013 onwards. NIA officials stated that ongoing investigation into other cases involving youth from Kerala who had attempted to or joined IS, threw up information on these Qatar-based youth having joined terrorist groups other than IS in Syria. “NIA is aware of the identity and addresses of these youth. However, it is not clear how the youth travelled to Syria and if they are still alive or dead’. In past instances, youth from Kerala have travelled to Syria via two routes. First, travelling to Turkey by flight and then crossing the border illegally to reach Syria, and second, taking a flight to a Gulf country and then travelling to Iran from where they travel to Turkey by road before crossing over to Syria. JAA is comprised of approximately 1,600 militants, mostly foreign terrorist fighters.
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January - 10 
On January 10, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made the 12th arrest in the ISIS-inspired module 'Harkat-Ul-Harb-e-Islam' (War for the cause of Islam) case, reports The Tribune. The agency arrested 24-year-old Muhammad Absar from Gaziabad in Uttar Pardesh (UP). According to an agency official
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On January 10, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made the 12th arrest in the ISIS-inspired module 'Harkat-Ul-Harb-e-Islam' (War for the cause of Islam) case, reports The Tribune. The agency arrested 24-year-old Muhammad Absar from Gaziabad in Uttar Pardesh (UP). According to an agency official, he had visited three places in J&K in the months of May and August 2018 along with another accused Iftekhar Sakib in connection with the terror conspiracy.The case will be next heard on January 18. The probe agency also carried out searches in Meerut and Hapur on January 12 with the support of UP Police at three locations connected with Muhammad Absar.Earlier on January 3, 21-year-old Naeem, a resident of Meerut, was arrested on charges of supplying arms to the other 10 accused, including alleged mastermind 29-year-old Mohammad Sohail arrested from Amroha in Uttar Pradesh in December 2018.On December 26, the NIA in early morning raids across 17 locations in New Delhi and Uttar Pradesh claimed busting a module that was allegedly preparing to launch fidayeen attacks.
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January - 11 
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 11 was granted a seven-day custody of J. Srinivas Rao, the accused in the attack on YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, reports The Hindu. The NIA, which took over the case from the State police, produced Srinivas Rao in the court and filed a peti
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A National Investigation Agency (NIA) on January 11 was granted a seven-day custody of J. Srinivas Rao, the accused in the attack on YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, reports The Hindu. The NIA, which took over the case from the State police, produced Srinivas Rao in the court and filed a petition seeking his custody. The reason behind attacking the YSRCP president, whether any other person was involved, why was a knife used in rooster fights used for the purpose, when and how was the attack planned, and any attempts made earlier were some of the issues on which the NIA police may grill Srinivas. The NIA team headed by an officer of the rank of Deputy Superintendent (DSP) or above is likely to take Srinivas into custody from Vijayawada jail on January 12 (today).
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January - 15 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet before a special court in Ahmedabad in connection with a Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) racket being operated in Gujarat, reports Ahmedabad Mirror on January 16. A spokesperson of NIA stated that a charge sheet was filed against two accused
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet before a special court in Ahmedabad in connection with a Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) racket being operated in Gujarat, reports Ahmedabad Mirror on January 16. A spokesperson of NIA stated that a charge sheet was filed against two accused, SanjaykumarMohanbhaiDevadiya alias SanjaykumarMohanbhaiDevaliya and SureshbhaiMavajibhaiLathidadiya alias Guruji and Chakor. The case was first registered by Ahmedabad Anti-Terrorist Squad, on inputs provided by the NIA, when it intercepted Devadiya, a resident of Junagadh, and seized 53 FICN’s in the denomination of INR 2000 and 92 FICN’s in the denomination of INR 500. The total face value of the fake notes seized from him was INR 1,52,000. NIA spokersprson also stated that NIA, subsequently, registered a fresh FIR in the instance. Investigation revealed that Devadiya purchased fake currency from wanted accused Tahir Saikh alias Kaliyo on the directions of Lathidadiya, who is presently lodged in Presidency Correctional Home in West Bengal's Alipore in another NIA case. He added that Devadiya subsequently "brought" the fake currency from New Farakka in West Bengal "for circulation in crowded areas and in markets of Junagadh (in Gujarat). The investigation has also revealed inter-state and international linkages pointing towards supply of FICN received from across the border. Further investigation is in progress.
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January - 17 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided at least six locations in four districts of western Uttar Pradesh and detained four men for interrogation in connection with the recently uncovered Islamic State (IS) inspired module, reports Hindustan Times on January 17. NIA teams and local Police conduct
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided at least six locations in four districts of western Uttar Pradesh and detained four men for interrogation in connection with the recently uncovered Islamic State (IS) inspired module, reports Hindustan Times on January 17. NIA teams and local Police conducted early morning raids in Athsaini and Badarkha villages of Garhmukteshwar area in Hapur, Kaloli village in Bulandshahr, Battkheri village of Amroha and Jasora and Ajnera villages of Meerut. Hapur’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Sankalp Sharma stated that NIA teams raided the two villages in the District after receiving a tip-off from a man called Naeem. He said Naeem was arrested from Rardhana village of Meerut on charges of supplying a pistol to terror module Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam. Three people have been taken into custody from Hapur for further interrogation, however, no arrest have been made. Another team raided Kaloli village of Bulandshahr and took a grocery shop owner Habib in custody. Habib returned to his village after spending many years in Saudi Arabia. Raids were also conducted on the house of Zubair in Batt Kheri village of Amroha but he slipped out before the officials could start the search. The agency had earlier arrested five members of the outfit from Amroha. Officials also raided Jasora, whose resident Absar was arrested on January 12, and Ajnera village of Mundali Police Station in Meerut. Absar was working as a teacher in Jamia Hasania Abul Hasan Madarsa in Piplera village of Hapur. According to officials, Absar had visited three places in Jammu and Kashmir between May and August, 2018 along with Iftekhar Saqib in connection with the terror conspiracy.
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January - 18 
A Delhi Court, on January 18, extended remand of Muhammed Absar, a man arrested from Uttar Pradesh under custody of National Investigation Agency (NIA) by seven days, reports News 18. He was arrested in connection with probe against an Islamic State (IS) inspired group for planning attacks in New De
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A Delhi Court, on January 18, extended remand of Muhammed Absar, a man arrested from Uttar Pradesh under custody of National Investigation Agency (NIA) by seven days, reports News 18. He was arrested in connection with probe against an Islamic State (IS) inspired group for planning attacks in New Delhi and other locations. Special Judge Rakesh Syal allowed the NIA's plea for further remand during in-chamber proceedings after 24-year-old Muhammed Absar was produced in court on the expiry of his six-day custodial interrogation.
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January - 21 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Mohammad Hussain Molani in Jaipur on January 21 when he returned from Dubai, reports NDTV. He is accused in a terror funding case involving the banned Pakistani organisation Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), The Hindu further adds that the NIA statement
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Mohammad Hussain Molani in Jaipur on January 21 when he returned from Dubai, reports NDTV. He is accused in a terror funding case involving the banned Pakistani organisation Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), The Hindu further adds that the NIA statement also added that ‘The accused was evading arrest by hiding in Dubai, UAE, for long. A Look Out Circular (LOC) was issued by NIA. He was detained on arrival at Jaipur International Airport from Dubai on January 20’. NIA said this was the fourth arrest in the case, relating to “receiving terror funds being sent by FIF operatives to their associates through hawala operators for furthering their nefarious activities to create unrest in India.” The accused was in close contact with foreign-based financiers of FIF. The arrestee was produced in front of a special NIA court which granted nine-day custody to the agency.
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January - 21 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been handed over the probe in the case in which a man, Harpalsingh Pratapsingh Naik, allegedly linked to the Khalistani movement was arrested from Chakan in Pune city of Pune District, reports Indian Express on January 21. Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been handed over the probe in the case in which a man, Harpalsingh Pratapsingh Naik, allegedly linked to the Khalistani movement was arrested from Chakan in Pune city of Pune District, reports Indian Express on January 21. Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) that was probing the case till now had arrested one more suspect from Delhi in connection with the incident. Earlier, ATS on December 2, 2018 arrested Naik for using social media to provoke youths to carry out terror attacks. The ATS probe had brought to light the links of Naik with some operatives in Pakistan and United Kingdom. Later, Punjab police arrested another suspect, identified as Mohin Khan Alias Munna Khan, from Sirhind on December 24. Khan was found to be associated with Naik.
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January - 23 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a suspected militant for his role in the 2006 Kozhikode twin blasts case on his arrival from Saudi Arabia at Delhi Airport on January 23, reports The Hindu. The arrestee has been identified as Mohammed Ashar. NIA in a statement said ‘The cases pertain to
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a suspected militant for his role in the 2006 Kozhikode twin blasts case on his arrival from Saudi Arabia at Delhi Airport on January 23, reports The Hindu. The arrestee has been identified as Mohammed Ashar. NIA in a statement said ‘The cases pertain to the twin IED blasts that had occurred at the Kerala Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) and Mofussil Bus Stands in Calicut (Kozhikode) City on March 3, 2006, causing injuries to two persons and damage to property. NIA had taken over the investigation of the cases on December 18, 2009 and had filed a chargesheet against eight accused persons, including Ashar’. Trial in this case against four available accused persons was completed in August, 2011 and two of the accused identified as T. Naseer and Sagas were sentenced to life imprisonment. Indian Express further adds that NIA Inspector General (IG) stated that ‘Investigation by NIA had revealed that Mohammed Ashar besides the other absconding accused P P Yusuf were parties to the criminal conspiracy hatched by the prime accused T Naseer, Safas (both convicted) and others to carry out Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts in Kozhikode city in protest over the denial of bail to Muslim accused persons involved in the Marad communal riots of 2003 at Kozhikode District. Mohammed Ashar, along with P P Yusuf, had assisted T Naseer in preparing the IEDs and had planted the explosive devices at the bus stands in Kozhikode city. Accused Mohd Ashar had gone to Saudi Arabia in 2007 itself, to evade his arrest’.
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January - 27 
Officials suspect that handler of the alleged Amroha-Delhi terror module was based in Pakistan, reports Indian Express on January 28. According to National Investigation Agency (NIA), the handler assumed the online identity of Abu Malik Peshawari and was instrumental in motivating the module’s alleg
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Officials suspect that handler of the alleged Amroha-Delhi terror module was based in Pakistan, reports Indian Express on January 28. According to National Investigation Agency (NIA), the handler assumed the online identity of Abu Malik Peshawari and was instrumental in motivating the module’s alleged mastermind, Mufti Suhail, a preacher from Delhi’s Jaffrabad; to join the Islamic State (IS) inspired group. Moreover, NIA investigators, appear to have ruled out a link between Sohail’s alleged module and another led by Abdullah Basith from Hyderabad, who was also found to have been in touch with suspected members of the Islamic State in Jammu & Kashmir. Two members of Basith’s group had been arrested by Delhi Police from Amroha, from where Mufti Suhail and some of his associates hail.
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January - 28 
Eight persons accused in the blast of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Bodh Gaya Temple complex, Bihar, in January 2018 had travelled to Hyderabad, Chennai and other southern cities and hatched the conspiracy, reports The Hindu on January 28. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its supple
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Eight persons accused in the blast of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) at Bodh Gaya Temple complex, Bihar, in January 2018 had travelled to Hyderabad, Chennai and other southern cities and hatched the conspiracy, reports The Hindu on January 28. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its supplementary chargesheet said, “The accused also committed several dacoities in Bengaluru to raise funds for their criminal activities. With regards to the conspiracy, NIA further added that ‘In furtherance of the conspiracy, the accused contacted and assembled at various places, took hideouts at Jehanabad [in Jehanabad District] and Masaurhi [in Patna District], recceed Bodh Gaya temple, procured the explosives and material for fabrication of the IEDs’. Furthermore, Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants arrested by NIA in relation to Bodh Gaya blast had spend 15 days in Hyderabad, reports Times of India adds that. During subsequent probe, the NIA had arrested eight JMB operatives, including main accused Jahidul Islam alias Kausar, a Bangladeshi leading JMB network in India who was arrested from Bengaluru International Airport. The accused used fake and assumed names for travel and renting hideouts. They introduced themselves to the house owners in Hyderabad and Bengaluru as garment sellers.
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January - 28 
Two Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants, identified as Kadar Kazi and Sajjad Ali, wanted in the 2014 Burdwan blast case, were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Aram Bagh in Hooghly District on January 28, reports New Indian Express. An NIA official stated, “They we
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Two Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants, identified as Kadar Kazi and Sajjad Ali, wanted in the 2014 Burdwan blast case, were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from Aram Bagh in Hooghly District on January 28, reports New Indian Express. An NIA official stated, “They were wanted in the Burdwan blast case. Kazi has also declared a proclaimed offender while Ali was his associate”. Official also stated that the duo had returned to West Bengal a couple of months back.
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January - 29 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has wrapped up its probe into the case of alleged force conversion of a women from Pathanamthitta District after it failed to get concrete evidence, reports New India Express on January 30. The anti-terror agency has referred the investigation back to the Ernakula
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) has wrapped up its probe into the case of alleged force conversion of a women from Pathanamthitta District after it failed to get concrete evidence, reports New India Express on January 30. The anti-terror agency has referred the investigation back to the Ernakulam Rural Police following the inability to unearth evidence to slap the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) Sections on the accused persons. Sources stated that, ‘Since no evidence about offence under UAPA Sections could be found, the state police can probe the offence charged under various IPC Sections. The state police after conducting the probe can chargesheet the accused and based on it trial can be conducted.”
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January - 30 
Police have identified a group of youth from Kerala who have gone to Syria in 2013 to join terrorist organizations such as Jabhat al-Nusra (currently known as Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham) and Jundal-Aqsa before the declaration of ‘caliphate’ by Islamic State (IS), reports The Times of India on January 30.
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Police have identified a group of youth from Kerala who have gone to Syria in 2013 to join terrorist organizations such as Jabhat al-Nusra (currently known as Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham) and Jundal-Aqsa before the declaration of ‘caliphate’ by Islamic State (IS), reports The Times of India on January 30. According to sources, the youths left for Syria from Qatar where their families have been staying for years. Some of them were born and brought up in Qatar. According to the sources, the youths were initially radicalized by a Pakistani who gave a CD containing the lecture titled 'Thereafter' by Anwar Al Awlaki, the AmericanSalafi preacher. An individual who hails from Perumbavoor (Ernakulam District) was the first one to be radicalised, who is turn brought others into the group, reports The Times of India on January 31. Two persons, one from Wayanad and the other from Mangaluru (in Karnataka), left for Syria in September 2013 via Turkey. Their intention was to join Jabhat al-Nusra and Jundal-Aqsa.Other members of the group left for Syria in early 2014. A native of Thrissur (Thrissur District) came back and two people hailing from Thalassery (Kannur District) and Wayanad (Wayanad District) married after reaching Syria. The security agencies do not know if they are still alive. National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case against the individuals. NIA stated that ‘Credible information was received that from 2013 onwards, certain youths, originally from Kerala and Karnataka but based in Qatar, had hatched criminal conspiracy to wage war against Syria’.
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January - 31 
The Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police (West Bengal) arrested a Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant identified as Abdul Motin from Malappuram District (Kerala) on January 31, reports NDTV. The militant hails from Assam’s Barpeta District He was one of the 15 people trained in
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The Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police (West Bengal) arrested a Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant identified as Abdul Motin from Malappuram District (Kerala) on January 31, reports NDTV. The militant hails from Assam’s Barpeta District He was one of the 15 people trained in handling arms and manufacturing improvised explosive devices at Simulia madrasa in Burdwan (Purba Bardhaman District. According to Police, Abdul Motin had left Bengal for Kerala immediately after the Burdwan incident on October 2, 2014, when an explosive accidentally went off on the first floor of a rented house in Khagragarh area. His presence in Kerala came to light after National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two militants Kadar Kazi and Sajjad Ali, from Arambagh in Bengal's Hooghly District on January 28.
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February - 1 
One person, identified as P Yoosaf was arrested in connection with the 2006 Kozhikode (Kozhikode District) twin blast case by National Investigation Agency (NIA) on February 1, reports Times of India. He was arrested from New Delhi Airport when he arrives from Saudi Arabia. With the arrest of Yoosaf
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One person, identified as P Yoosaf was arrested in connection with the 2006 Kozhikode (Kozhikode District) twin blast case by National Investigation Agency (NIA) on February 1, reports Times of India. He was arrested from New Delhi Airport when he arrives from Saudi Arabia. With the arrest of Yoosaf, the eighth accused, the NIA has arrested all the accused in the case. According to sources, Yoosuf was part of the conspiracy and was also involved in planting the explosives. He had fled the country in 2007. The case pertains to the twin Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts that had occurred at two bus stands in Kozhikode on March 3, 2006, causing injuries to two persons besides damage to property. The explosives were planted after bail was denied to the accused in Marad (Kozhikode District) communal riot case.
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February - 2 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the seizure of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) seizure from Thrissur (Thrissur District) is trying to track down a Bangladeshi national identified as Alim Sheikh who smuggled FICN through India-Bangladesh Border, reports New Indian Express on February 3.
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the seizure of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) seizure from Thrissur (Thrissur District) is trying to track down a Bangladeshi national identified as Alim Sheikh who smuggled FICN through India-Bangladesh Border, reports New Indian Express on February 3. In 2018, police had recovered two FICNs of Rs 2000 denomination from Murshidabad native Ali Hossain while he was trying to exchange them at a textile shop in Thrissur. Subsequent search in his house in Mudappallur in Palakkad (Palakkad District) to seizure of 101 FICN notes. Investigation has revealed that Alim and his friend Sadikul reached the rented accommodation of Ali Hossain, where they planned to circulate the FICN.
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February - 2 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) questioned an Indian couple currently in Yemen through the messaging platform WhatsApp, reports The Hindu on February 3. Shirin Shahana and FasalMusthafa, who allegedly persuaded Hadiya a homeopathic student from Kerala to convert to Islam, were recently sent ques
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) questioned an Indian couple currently in Yemen through the messaging platform WhatsApp, reports The Hindu on February 3. Shirin Shahana and FasalMusthafa, who allegedly persuaded Hadiya a homeopathic student from Kerala to convert to Islam, were recently sent questions by NIA. An official stated that ‘Since they are not in India, it was impossible to question them. We sent the questions to them on WhatsApp where they replied. It will be treated as evidence under law’. During their investigations, the NIA found that the couple were now based in Yemen where they were pursuing some religious studies. The official said they were unlikely to return to India and their questioning was critical for the ongoing probe.
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February - 7 
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) report state that at least 33 alleged Pakistani terrorists have crossed into India from the Punjab and Samba-Kathua sectors in Jammu &Kashmir since October 2017, reports The Print on February 7. The NIA report suggests that the terrorists may have infiltrated th
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A National Investigation Agency (NIA) report state that at least 33 alleged Pakistani terrorists have crossed into India from the Punjab and Samba-Kathua sectors in Jammu &Kashmir since October 2017, reports The Print on February 7. The NIA report suggests that the terrorists may have infiltrated through the same sector that the attackers, who carried out the Pathankot Air Base attack and the Nagrota Army camp attack had used. According to the report, the standard operating procedure is to sneak in a group of five terrorists at a time. The Over Ground Workers (OGW) of terrorists help them with travel, stay and other logistics. Following the interrogation of two modules of arrested alleged OGWs, it was found that five terrorists had crossed over on the night 23-24 October 2017. On the intervening night of 30-31 December 2017, a group of another five terrorists crossed the border. This was followed by another group on the intervening night of 14-15 January 2018, 13-14 March, 13-14 April, 13-14 May and a group of three terrorists in the intervening night of 11-12 September 2018. Multiple intelligence inputs have revealed that over the past several months, Pakistan is changing its focus to the international border for infiltration. NIA report also details new launch pads that have allegedly been set up by Pakistan opposite the Jammu region. These launch pads have been set up opposite Kathua and Baniyal, Hiranagar, Samba and R.S. Pura sectors.
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February - 7 
On February 7, National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a fresh chargesheet against two accused in the Abu Dhabi Islamic State (IS) module case, reports New Indian Express. The chargesheet was filed before a special court here against Mohammad Abdullah Basith and Mohammad Abdul Qhadeer. According t
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On February 7, National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a fresh chargesheet against two accused in the Abu Dhabi Islamic State (IS) module case, reports New Indian Express. The chargesheet was filed before a special court here against Mohammad Abdullah Basith and Mohammad Abdul Qhadeer. According to NIA spokesperson Basith, a resident of Chandrayangutta in Hyderabad (Telengana) , was continuously making efforts to propagate IS ideology in India. Basith and his associates were involved in identifying, motivating, radicalisingyouths to join them. The spokesperson also added that Qhadeer, who was also a resident of the same area in Hyderabad, came under the influence of Basith because of their common intention to propagate the ISIS ideology in India. NIA had booked the case in 2016 in which three persons from India, living in Abu Dhabi, formed a gang owing their membership to IS. Times of India further adds that some of the explosives recovered from the arrestees were allegedly bought by Qhadeer through Amazon.
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February - 9 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has launched an investigation to find the suspects who sent over a dozen envelopes, some of which were laced with chemicals to the universities across Greece from India, reports Times of India on February 10. Some of the envelopes had printed notes of ‘Islamic
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has launched an investigation to find the suspects who sent over a dozen envelopes, some of which were laced with chemicals to the universities across Greece from India, reports Times of India on February 10. Some of the envelopes had printed notes of ‘Islamic content’ inside, following which the Greek anti-terrorism unit initiated a probe and recently approached the Indian government. The envelopes were sent to the universities and some private institutions in the Athens, the islands of Crete, Lesvos, Corfu and Cephalonia and other towns including Arta, Sparta and Volos among others.
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February - 10 
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has begun to track money trail involved in an alleged receipt of terror funds worth INR 15.6 Million from a front of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), reports Mumbai Mirror on February 10. According to ED, the probe seeks to identify the proceeds of crime emanating from the ter
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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has begun to track money trail involved in an alleged receipt of terror funds worth INR 15.6 Million from a front of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), reports Mumbai Mirror on February 10. According to ED, the probe seeks to identify the proceeds of crime emanating from the terror funds, which were routed from Dubai using hawala networks, and establish how it was spent or diverted. The funds were allegedly routed to India by LeT’s front, Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF). The ED case was registered on the basis of a probe by National Investigation Agency (NIA), which arrested the Delhi resident, Mohammad Salman in September 2018. NIA has so far arrested four persons, including Salman and Mohammad MolanialiasBabloo, a resident of Rajasthan who was nabbed after his arrival from Dubai.
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February - 16 
A Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant identified as Ariful Islam alias Arif was arrested from Kolkata on February 16, reports Indian Express. He is a resident of Barpeta in Assam. According to Police ‘Arif studied at Howly (Barpeta District) in Assam and worked as a helper with truck driv
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A Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant identified as Ariful Islam alias Arif was arrested from Kolkata on February 16, reports Indian Express. He is a resident of Barpeta in Assam. According to Police ‘Arif studied at Howly (Barpeta District) in Assam and worked as a helper with truck drivers. He came in touch with Jahidul Islam aliasKauser and Abdul Majid and was invited by them to join JMB’. Officer also added that ‘In January 2018, Arif along with Adil, Hassan, Chota Kareem and Kausar went to Bodh Gaya, conducted recce and planted explosives. He was directly involved in the Bodh Gaya blast’. National Investigative Agency (NIA) had last year arrested five people in connection with the case.
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February - 20 
Six days after the Pulwama suicide bombing, in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on February 20 filed a FIR (First Information Report) “naming Maulana Masood Azhar-led Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)” for the conspiracy, reports The Ti
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Six days after the Pulwama suicide bombing, in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on February 20 filed a FIR (First Information Report) “naming Maulana Masood Azhar-led Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)” for the conspiracy, reports The Times of India.Sources said they already have sufficient primary evidence, including a video through which Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility, pattern of Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) attacks, names of people who executed the blast and details linking the bomb to Pakistan and JeM.The agency is planning to mount pressure on Pakistan through international agencies like Interpol to arrest Azhar since red notices have been issued against him in the past for attacks on the Pathankot IAF base, Parliament and J&K assembly. Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency have so far refused to honour these notices. Government officials said that the matter would be raised with Interpol’s headquarters since Pakistan is also a member of the international body, but has refused to arrest any wanted designated terrorist against whom red notice has been issued — be it Azhar, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) chief Hafiz Saeed, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) chief Syed Salahuddin, Abdul Rauf Asghar or D company boss Dawood Ibrahim. In fact, these people roam freely in the country along with security cover provided by the Pakistan Government. Agencies already have a dossier on JeM, which includes its sympathisers, overground workers (OGW), known hideouts of cadres, madrasas from where the outfit gets support in Kashmir and other parts of the country.Sources said all those linked to the outfit are being located while some have already been questioned in the last few days. A search is on for one of JeM’s local recruits in the Valley — Muddassir Ahmad Khan — who played a key role in the attack.
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February - 20 
On February 20, Tahir alias Kaliya who is wanted in a Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case was arrested from Malda (Malda District) in West Bengal by National Investigation Agency (NIA), reports Business Standard. According to NIA, he was arrested for his ‘active role in procurement, trafficking an
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On February 20, Tahir alias Kaliya who is wanted in a Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case was arrested from Malda (Malda District) in West Bengal by National Investigation Agency (NIA), reports Business Standard. According to NIA, he was arrested for his ‘active role in procurement, trafficking and supply of huge quantities of FICN’.
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February - 25 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet against six alleged sympathisers of Islamic State (IS) in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, reports Hindustan Times on February 26. The agency has filed a charge sheet against Mohamed Ashiq A, Ismail S, Samsudeen, Mohammed Salauddin S, JafarShadik Ali
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet against six alleged sympathisers of Islamic State (IS) in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, reports Hindustan Times on February 26. The agency has filed a charge sheet against Mohamed Ashiq A, Ismail S, Samsudeen, Mohammed Salauddin S, JafarShadik Ali and Shahul Hameed before special court in Chennai. According to NIA spokesperson, these members were part of a criminal conspiracy to target “Hindu leaders/ activists at Coimbatore” who are critical of the ISIS and of religious terrorism. Ashiq, Ismail, Samsudeen, Mohammed Salauddin, Shadik were arrested on September 1, 2018 from Coimbatore. An NIA official also stated that ‘NIA investigation has revealed that the arrested accused persons had got radicalized on the violent extremist ideology of the proscribed terrorist organization ISIS/ Daish and they had been propagating the same ideology over the social media’.
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February - 26 
An unidentified businessman from Bahadurpura in Hyderabad District who was summoned to Delhi by National Investigation Agency (NIA) for questioning in a terror funding case failed to appear before the authorities, reports Times of India on February 26. It’s not clear if he has been summoned as a sus
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An unidentified businessman from Bahadurpura in Hyderabad District who was summoned to Delhi by National Investigation Agency (NIA) for questioning in a terror funding case failed to appear before the authorities, reports Times of India on February 26. It’s not clear if he has been summoned as a suspect or a witness. In Sept 2018, NIA had unearthed a terror-funding module of Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), a charity arm of Lashkar e Toiba (LeT).
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February - 28 
Five Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) members were sentenced to life imprisonment and five acquitted on February 28 for procession of explosives by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Bhopal (Bhopal District), reports Business Standard. Madhya Pradesh Police's Anti-Terror
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Five Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) members were sentenced to life imprisonment and five acquitted on February 28 for procession of explosives by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Bhopal (Bhopal District), reports Business Standard. Madhya Pradesh Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) had arrested three SIMI activists with a cache of explosives during a raid in Mahidpur area in Ujjain District on January 1, 2013. Nine others were arrested subsequently. Eight hundred gelatine sticks, 540 detonators, a 'gelatin bomb', a pipe bomb and 11 other types of bombs were recovered from the accused.
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March - 1 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director General (DG) Y C Modi on March 1 stated that NIA has been entrusted with 250 cases since its inception, reports Business Standard. Of the 250 cases, 97 pertain to jihadi terrorism, 41 to North-East insurgency, 37 to Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), 25 t
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director General (DG) Y C Modi on March 1 stated that NIA has been entrusted with 250 cases since its inception, reports Business Standard. Of the 250 cases, 97 pertain to jihadi terrorism, 41 to North-East insurgency, 37 to Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), 25 to Left wing extremism (LWE), while the remaining relate to terror gangs etc. The Hindu further adds that the Union Home Minister stated that ‘I can say with certainty that of all investigation agencies in India, or perhaps the world, the conviction rate of the NIA is perhaps the highest. The NIA's conviction rate is 92%’.
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March - 1 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) submitted evidence supplied by Iraq in a case against an alleged Islamic State (IS) recruit Areeb Majeed, reports Economic Times on March 1. According to sources, Iraqi authorities have confirmed about Majeed’s presence in their country when IS had taken control.
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) submitted evidence supplied by Iraq in a case against an alleged Islamic State (IS) recruit Areeb Majeed, reports Economic Times on March 1. According to sources, Iraqi authorities have confirmed about Majeed’s presence in their country when IS had taken control. According to an unidentified source, After IS started losing its foothold in Iraq and the new government was sworn in October last year, we started writing to the Iraqi government to share the evidence. They have been able to provide a lot of evidence that reaffirms our findings. Our case against Majeed is that he has been waging war against an allied nation, Iraq. Sharing of these crucial details have made our case against him stronger’.
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March - 1 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) supplementary charge sheet stated that Islamic State (IS) sympathisers planned lone wolf attacks targeting Government employees, Security Forces (SFs), investigating agencies and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), reports Economic Times on March 2. The supplementa
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) supplementary charge sheet stated that Islamic State (IS) sympathisers planned lone wolf attacks targeting Government employees, Security Forces (SFs), investigating agencies and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), reports Economic Times on March 2. The supplementary charge sheet was filed against Abdullah Basith and Abdul Qhadeer who were arrested on August 12, 2018. Both, who hail from Hyderabad (Telangana), were involved in identifying, motivating, radicalizing youths to Join IS. According to the NIA supplementary charge sheet, during November and December 2017, an individual identified as Matin Azizi provided Basith the contact of one Huzaifa who is believed to be a Pakistani national in Afghanistan. In March and April 2018, Huzaifa asked Basith to procure weapons from Punjab, Delhi and Bihar. Huzaifa also advised Basith to plan for lone wolf attacks. Later Huzaifa directed the two to collect weapons from another individual. However, two were arrested when they went to collect weapons by Special Cell of Delhi Police. However, they were set free after counselling. Later Basith apprehending his arrest contacted Huzaifa to give him some contacts to join Islamic State of Jammu and Kashmir (ISJK). On July 28 2018, Basith reached Delhi However, the individual who was supposed to provide him with weapons was arrested by Delhi Police and on August 12 2018, NIA arrested Basith from Hyderabad.
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March - 1 
On March 1 Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh stated that Government of India (GoI) approved an NIA proposal to open a research cell on Islamic State (IS), reports Times of India. He also added that 100 new posts have been created in the NIA for effective investigation and supervision.
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On March 1 Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh stated that Government of India (GoI) approved an NIA proposal to open a research cell on Islamic State (IS), reports Times of India. He also added that 100 new posts have been created in the NIA for effective investigation and supervision.
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March - 4 
A supplementary charge sheet by National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with arrest of Islamic State (IS) sympathisers Abdullah Basith and Abdul Qhadeer stated that Basith was an associate member of Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) from 2012 to 2014, reports Business Standard. He was ex
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A supplementary charge sheet by National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with arrest of Islamic State (IS) sympathisers Abdullah Basith and Abdul Qhadeer stated that Basith was an associate member of Students Islamic Organisation (SIO) from 2012 to 2014, reports Business Standard. He was expelled from SIO in 2014, due to his sympathy with the IS. As a member of SIO, he met one Adnan Ahmed who directed him to watch Islamist videos identified as light revelations and light reloaded. According to NIA, ‘Light Revelation series were against IS, whereas, Light Reloaded series run counter to Light Revelations and are in favour of IS’. Basith also watched the speeches of Anwar-Al-Alwalaki, a radical Islamist Yemeni preacher with allegiance to Al Qaeda. Basith also watched videos of Musa Cerantonio who was arrested by the Australian authorities in May 2016. Since 2016, National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered 10 separate cases against modules of terror outfit Islamic State in various places of the country including Howrah (West Bengal), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Kannur (Kerala), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Kullu (Himachal Pradesh), Delhi and Coimbatore.
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March - 6 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Panchkula (Panchkula District in Punjab) on March 6 fixed March 11 for orders in Samjhauta blasts which had occurred in 2007, reports Times of India.The blasts on Samjhauta Express train had taken place on February 18, 2007, killing 68 people, mostly Paki
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Panchkula (Panchkula District in Punjab) on March 6 fixed March 11 for orders in Samjhauta blasts which had occurred in 2007, reports Times of India.The blasts on Samjhauta Express train had taken place on February 18, 2007, killing 68 people, mostly Pakistanis. The train was targeted as Pakistani Muslims used to travel by it. NIA on June 20, 2011 had filed the charge sheet against Swami Aseemanand and four others in the Panchkula NIA court. In the charge sheet, filed before the special NIA court, the agency had accused Aseemanand, Lokesh Sharma, Sunil Joshi (now dead), Sandeep Dange and RamchandraKalasangraalias Ramji of hatching a criminal conspiracy.
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March - 7 
On March 7, a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrived in Agartala in West Tripura District for interrogation of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant, reports Assam Tribune. Additional inspector-general (law and order) Subrata Chakraborty stated that the suspect has been remande
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On March 7, a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrived in Agartala in West Tripura District for interrogation of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant, reports Assam Tribune. Additional inspector-general (law and order) Subrata Chakraborty stated that the suspect has been remanded for 12-day Police custody. Indian Express further adds that joint team of NIA, Intelligence Bureau, Military Intelligence and officials of Tripura Police Special Branch is conducting the interrogation.
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March - 8 
A three-member team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrived in Bihar on March 8 to probe into the recovery of huge cache of arms from Purnia District in February, reports Business Standard. On February 7, Police recovered 1,800 cartridges, unassembled parts of rifles including that of an
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A three-member team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrived in Bihar on March 8 to probe into the recovery of huge cache of arms from Purnia District in February, reports Business Standard. On February 7, Police recovered 1,800 cartridges, unassembled parts of rifles including that of an AK-47 and UBGL near Dalkola check post in Purnia District. Police have arrested six arms smugglers in connection with the incident. Around 20 people belonging to the international gang of arms smugglers are still absconding.
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March - 8 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on March 8 filed a supplementary charge-sheet against the key accused Abdul Kadir in Bengaluru Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case, reports UNI. Abdul as arrested in an FICN case pertaining to seizure of FICN worth INR 6,34,000 on August 8, 2018.
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on March 8 filed a supplementary charge-sheet against the key accused Abdul Kadir in Bengaluru Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case, reports UNI. Abdul as arrested in an FICN case pertaining to seizure of FICN worth INR 6,34,000 on August 8, 2018.
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March - 10 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) stated that it had served four notices to Pakistan to present the 13 witnesses in the Samjhauta Express blast case but got no response, reports The Hindu on March 11. NIA, which has been asked to submit a report by March 14, is likely to tell the special court tha
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) stated that it had served four notices to Pakistan to present the 13 witnesses in the Samjhauta Express blast case but got no response, reports The Hindu on March 11. NIA, which has been asked to submit a report by March 14, is likely to tell the special court that it tried serving summons on the 13 witnesses even a month ago. Former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member Aseemanand is one of the prime accused in the Samjhauta Express blast on February 18, 2007 in which 68 people were killed.
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March - 11 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on March 11 filed a charge sheet in connection with an alleged conspiracy of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) to carry out a terror attack in Uttar Pradesh in 2018, reports New Indian Express. In its charge sheet filed in a special court in Lucknow, the agency charged K
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on March 11 filed a charge sheet in connection with an alleged conspiracy of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) to carry out a terror attack in Uttar Pradesh in 2018, reports New Indian Express. In its charge sheet filed in a special court in Lucknow, the agency charged Kamruj Zaman of Assam and absconding accused Osama Bin Javed of Jammu and Kashmir. The Uttar Pradesh Police had booked Zaman on September 12, 2018 for hatching a criminal conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks by Hizbul Mujahideen cadres at different places in Uttar Pradesh. NIA spokesperson stated that ‘Investigation has established that Zaman and Javed had joined HM and were imparted nine months weapon training (June 2017 - March 2018) by two cadres of terror group Mohammad Amin and Hajari in the jungles of District Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir’. He also added that ‘on 8 April 2018, a photograph of Zaman brandishing an automatic AK-47 rifle emerged on social media, which was posted by Mannan Wani, a slain terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen, on his Facebook account.
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March - 11 
The chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference-Mirwaiz (APHC-M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq didn’t appear before the National Investigating Agency (NIA) at New Delhi on March 11 and instead sent a written reply to the notice, reports Daily Excelsior. Mirwaiz, who was summoned by NIA to appear before its h
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The chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference-Mirwaiz (APHC-M), Mirwaiz Umar Farooq didn’t appear before the National Investigating Agency (NIA) at New Delhi on March 11 and instead sent a written reply to the notice, reports Daily Excelsior. Mirwaiz, who was summoned by NIA to appear before its headquarters in New Delhi at 10.30 am on March 11, has asked the NIA to conduct his examination in Srinagar. In reply to NIA summons, Mirwaiz, through his lawyer Aijaz Ahmad Dhar, alleged that attempts were being made to link the moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman in false and fabricated cases of terror funding through manipulation. Advocate Dhar alleged that the notice appeared to have been issued on the basis of fallacious assumptions and misinformation solely aimed at maligning the Mirwaiz and knowing his status and position, it appears to be outcome of considerations other than the law.
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March - 12 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) stated that the accused who were arrested in connection with Kanakamala Islamic State (IS) case drew motivation from Ghazwatul Hind which has bene quoted by terrorist including Lashkar eToiba’s Hafiz Saeed, reports New Indian Express on March 13. Ghazwatul Hind is
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) stated that the accused who were arrested in connection with Kanakamala Islamic State (IS) case drew motivation from Ghazwatul Hind which has bene quoted by terrorist including Lashkar eToiba’s Hafiz Saeed, reports New Indian Express on March 13. Ghazwatul Hind is interpreted as an appeal to conquer India and anyone attaining martyrdom in the process will reach heaven and this frequently featured in militant social media chats. According to NIA prosecutor Arjun Ambalapatta There are different interpretations of Ghazwatul Hind. However, terror operatives claim it is for conquering India. Some claim Hind referred in the Hadith is a person’. Similarly, writings by Ibn Nuhaas - an Islamic scholar and a jihadi who lived in Egypt during medieval times. is often quoted by IS suspects in the state. The translated version of a tome by Nuhaas was seized from the residence of an accused in Kanakamala case. The preaching’s of American Anwar al-Awalaki, a radical Islamist of Yemeni descent was also relied upon by the accused.
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March - 17 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary charge sheet against Kerala resident NashidulHamzafar in the Islamic State (IS) Kasaragod module case where youths from India were recruited for the terror outfit, reports The New Indian Express on March 17. The case relates to the conspi
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a supplementary charge sheet against Kerala resident NashidulHamzafar in the Islamic State (IS) Kasaragod module case where youths from India were recruited for the terror outfit, reports The New Indian Express on March 17. The case relates to the conspiracy hatched by Hamzafar and 14 others, belonging to Kasaragod District of Kerala who left India with the intention of joining and furthering the objectives of IS. “Pursuant to the conspiracy, 14 accused from Kasaragod district had exited India or their workplaces in Middle-East Asia between mid-May and early-July, 2016 before travelling to Afghanistan or Syria, where they joined the ISIS/ Daish,” said NIA, in a statement on March 17.
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March - 20 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on March 20 acquitted four people, including main accused Swami Aseemanand, in the 2007 Samjhauta Train bombing case, reports The Hindu. Apart from Aseemanand, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member, the others acquitted were Kamal Chauhan, Rajind
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on March 20 acquitted four people, including main accused Swami Aseemanand, in the 2007 Samjhauta Train bombing case, reports The Hindu. Apart from Aseemanand, a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member, the others acquitted were Kamal Chauhan, Rajinder Chaudhary and Lokesh Sharma. All the accused were present when the order was passed by NIA special judge Jagdeep Singh. Earlier, the court dismissed an application filed by a Pakistani woman in connection with the case. On March 11, Rahila Wakeel, a Pakistani national and daughter of one of the victims of the blasts, filed a petition through advocate Momin Malik, to get her statement recorded as witness in the 12-year-old case. NIA counsel Rajan Malhotra said the application was dismissed as the court ruled it was “devoid of any merit.”
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March - 28 
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court that acquitted all the accused in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, where 68 people were killed, said in its judgment that the NIA had miserably failed to prove the charges framed against the accused, reports The Hindu on March 28. Special Cou
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A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court that acquitted all the accused in the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast case, where 68 people were killed, said in its judgment that the NIA had miserably failed to prove the charges framed against the accused, reports The Hindu on March 28. Special Court Judge Jagdeep Singh said the court had to “conclude this judgment with deep pain and anguish as a dastardly act of violence remained unpunished for want of credible and admissible evidence.” The court also pulled up the investigating agencies for coining terms like “Muslim terrorism, Hindu fundamentalism etc. or brand an act of criminal(s) as act(s) of particular religion, caste or community.” Several witnesses turned hostile.
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April - 1 
A special court on April 1 issued notices to the Consul General of India, Istanbul, and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), New Delhi, after Areeb Majeed, who is facing trial for allegedly travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), made a plea seeking documents from them, claiming that
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A special court on April 1 issued notices to the Consul General of India, Istanbul, and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), New Delhi, after Areeb Majeed, who is facing trial for allegedly travelling to Syria to join the Islamic State (IS), made a plea seeking documents from them, claiming that arrangements for his return were made through them, reports The Indian Express.According to the submissions made before the court by Majeed, he had filed an application under the Right to Information Act, in September 2018, to the MEA seeking these documents. He was told that his application was being forwarded to the Consulate. Majeed told the court that on October 24, 2018, the response he received from the Consulate said that as per available records, an Emergency Certificate was issued as per Government of India prescribed guidelines for stranded Indian nationals, that one-way ticket for Istanbul-Mumbai and hotel accommodation for one night was provided by the Consulate.While the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed that Majeed, who along with three others, travelled to Baghdad for a religious pilgrimage in May 2014, but separated from the travel group to join the IS. The NIA claims that he was arrested on November 29, 2014, when he returned to the country with “some ulterior motive”. Majeed, however, claimed that his return was facilitated by the agency, whose officials were in touch with his father.
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April - 2 
A Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant, identified as Nisar Ahmed Tantray was arrested by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) at the International Airport in New Delhi on April 2 for his links with a Fidayeen (suicide) attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in 2017 in Awantipora area of
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A Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant, identified as Nisar Ahmed Tantray was arrested by the National Investigating Agency (NIA) at the International Airport in New Delhi on April 2 for his links with a Fidayeen (suicide) attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in 2017 in Awantipora area of Pulwama District, reports Daily Excelsior. Nisar Ahmed Tantray, who is the brother of slain JeM ‘commander’ Noor Mohammad Tantray alias Noor Trali, was an accused in the Fidayeen attack that was carried out on December 30, 2017 on Lethpora camp had gone into hiding. He had recently fled to United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was, however, brought back by the Government and arrested by the NIA soon after he landed at International Airport on April 2.
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April - 2 
The Supreme Court on April 2 cancelled the bail of Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, a Kashmiri businessman, accused in a terror funding case linked to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) ‘chief’ Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, reports The Hindu. A Bench led by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar said National Investigating Age
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The Supreme Court on April 2 cancelled the bail of Zahoor Ahmad Shah Watali, a Kashmiri businessman, accused in a terror funding case linked to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) ‘chief’ Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, reports The Hindu. A Bench led by Justice A.M. Khanwilkar said National Investigating Agency (NIA) has collected ample evidence to show links between the Hurriyat leaders of Jammu and Kashmir and terror organizations and their activities to wage war against India.“Ample material has been collected to show the linkages between the Hurriyat leaders of the Jammu and Kashmir and terrorists/terrorist organizations and their continuous activities to wage war against Government of India,” the court observed.
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April - 11 
A special court on April 11, issued summons to nodal officers of five telecom companies following a Bombay High Court order on March 27 directing production of call data records exchanged between officers of the National Investigation Agency and Areeb Majeed’s father, reports Indian Express. Majeed
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A special court on April 11, issued summons to nodal officers of five telecom companies following a Bombay High Court order on March 27 directing production of call data records exchanged between officers of the National Investigation Agency and Areeb Majeed’s father, reports Indian Express. Majeed is facing trial for allegedly travelling to Syria to join Islamic State (IS). Majeed had claimed that the records are part of his defence to demonstrate that the entire arrangement of his arrival from Turkey was done by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and he was arrested after his return on November 28, 2014.
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April - 12 
A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court (HC) on April 12 acquitted five persons sentenced by National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in a case relating to holding a secret meeting of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) at Panayikulam in Aluva in Ernakulam District in 2006, reports The Hind
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A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court (HC) on April 12 acquitted five persons sentenced by National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in a case relating to holding a secret meeting of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) at Panayikulam in Aluva in Ernakulam District in 2006, reports The Hindu. Those acquitted have been identified as Shaduly, alias Haris Abdul Karim, Abdul Rasik, AnzarNadvi, Nizamuddin and Shammas. The NIA Court has awarded 14 years of imprisonment for Shaduli and Razik and 12 years of imprisonment for others.
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April - 20 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on April 20 conducted searches at three locations in Hyderabad (in Telangana) and one in Wardha (Wardha District) in Maharashtra and picked up for suspected Islamic State (IS) militants, reports Business Standard. The raid was part of investigation into the 2016 A
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on April 20 conducted searches at three locations in Hyderabad (in Telangana) and one in Wardha (Wardha District) in Maharashtra and picked up for suspected Islamic State (IS) militants, reports Business Standard. The raid was part of investigation into the 2016 Abu Dhabi module case. NIA recovered 13 mobile phones, 11 SIM cards, one iPad, two laptops, one external hard disk, six pen drives, 6 SD cards, three Kenwood Walkie Talkie sets and other incriminating material from their possession.
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April - 20 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on April 20, arrested a suspected Islamic State (IS) militant Mohammad Gufran for allegedly planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting politicians and government installations in Delhi and other parts of north India, reports The Hindu. According to NIA,
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on April 20, arrested a suspected Islamic State (IS) militant Mohammad Gufran for allegedly planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting politicians and government installations in Delhi and other parts of north India, reports The Hindu. According to NIA, he had formed a pro-ISIS module namely Harkat Ul Harb-e-Islam. He is the 13th accused to have been arrested in the case. The NIA has said that one Mufti Mohammed Suhail, a resident of Delhi’s Jafrabad in Seelampur, was the ‘Amir’ (local chief) of the pro-ISIS module which mobilised funds and procured weapons, ammunition and explosive materials to prepare improvised explosive devices with his other associates.
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April - 22 
Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India had specific intelligence on Easter Sunday serial blasts in Sri Lanka, reports The Hindu on April 22. While examining an Islamic State (IS) sympathiser in Tamil Nadu in India six months ago, investigators got to know of the terror plot and
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Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India had specific intelligence on Easter Sunday serial blasts in Sri Lanka, reports The Hindu on April 22. While examining an Islamic State (IS) sympathiser in Tamil Nadu in India six months ago, investigators got to know of the terror plot and alerted the authorities concerned to pass on the information to Sri Lanka. A senior Police officer in India said there was clear information on the plan to trigger blasts which was communicated to Sri Lanka through diplomatic channels. The officer also said that the Intelligence Bureau had sounded an alert on the likelihood of the terror suspects escaping to India through the coasts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry.
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April - 25 
Intelligence inputs regarding a possible terror attack in Sri Lanka was shared by Indian agencies with their Sri Lankan counterparts earlier this month after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) completed its probe into an Islamic State (IS) inspired module planning to kill prominent leaders in S
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Intelligence inputs regarding a possible terror attack in Sri Lanka was shared by Indian agencies with their Sri Lankan counterparts earlier this month after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) completed its probe into an Islamic State (IS) inspired module planning to kill prominent leaders in South India, officials said in New Delhi, reports The Hindu on April 26. The input was sent through diplomatic channels to the island nation after a thorough investigation pertaining to the ISIS case in Coimbatore was carried out by the NIA, which has filed a charge sheet against seven people.
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April - 28 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a West Bengal native in connection with a Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) racket busted at Vishakhapatnam in 2018, and recovered four fake Rs 2,000 notes having a face value of Rs 8,000 on April 28, reports Deccan Chronicle. The NIA said that Sa
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a West Bengal native in connection with a Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) racket busted at Vishakhapatnam in 2018, and recovered four fake Rs 2,000 notes having a face value of Rs 8,000 on April 28, reports Deccan Chronicle. The NIA said that Saddam alias FirojShaik, 22, was arrested in his native village of Kumbhira in Malda district of West Bengal. “Saddam had produced the fake notes through his associates from across the border and facilitate circulation of the notes in Bengaluru and other nearby locations,” said the NIA.
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April - 28 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on April 28 conducted searches at three places in Kerala in connection with a case pertaining to youth from the state joining Islamic State (IS), reports The Indian Express.The agency carried out raids in Kasaragod and Palakkad and interrogated three individua
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on April 28 conducted searches at three places in Kerala in connection with a case pertaining to youth from the state joining Islamic State (IS), reports The Indian Express.The agency carried out raids in Kasaragod and Palakkad and interrogated three individuals who are suspected to have links with the youth who joined the dreaded terror organisation.Besides this, the NIA also seized mobile phones, SIM cards, memory cards, pen drives, diaries with handwritten notes in Arabic and Malayalam, DVDs and books of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, besides untitled DVDs, CDs with religious speeches, books of Syed Kutheb. The case, known as the ISIS Kasaragod Module case, first came to light last year when the NIA busted an IS module in Kasaragod and arrested a 25-year-old youth, Habeeb Rahman.Further investigation revealed that a group of 14 people had left India or their workplaces in Middle-East Asia, between mid-May and early July, 2016, to join IS.NIA agents searched the houses of the potential suspects at Kaliyangad and Nayanmarmoola in Kasargod and Adavumaram and Muthalamada in Palakkad, adds The Hindu. The NIA also appeared to have factored in reports that Hashim, the terror mastermind, had travelled widely in India. Hence, his itinerary, contacts and places of stay were currently subjects of interest for the agency.
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April - 29 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on April 29 said it had arrested a 29-year-old resident of Palakkad in Kerala, allegedly planning a suicide attack in the state, reports The Hindu. In a statement, the NIA said it arrested Riyas A., who goes by the aliases RiyasAboobacker and Abu Dujana, as pa
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on April 29 said it had arrested a 29-year-old resident of Palakkad in Kerala, allegedly planning a suicide attack in the state, reports The Hindu. In a statement, the NIA said it arrested Riyas A., who goes by the aliases RiyasAboobacker and Abu Dujana, as part of its probe into the ‘ISIS Kasargod case’ filed in July 2016 after 15 young men from the district disappeared and later joined the Islamic State (IS), 14 in Afghanistan and one in Syria. It said he followed the videos and speeches of the mastermind of the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, Zahran Hashim. “During interrogation, he disclosed that he had been in online contact with the absconding accused Abdul Rashid Abdulla, alias Abu Isa, for a long time and was following his audio clips, including the one he had circulated on social media platforms instigating terror attacks in India,” the NIA said. The terror accused said he was also in online contact with Abdul Khayoom, alias Abu Khalid, who is accused in the Valapattanam ISIS case and is believed to be in Syria, the NIA said. “He said he had been following speeches/videos of Zahran Hashim of Sri Lanka and Zakir Naik. He admitted that he wanted to carry out a suicide attack in Kerala,” the NIA statement read. “During interrogation, he disclosed that he has been in online contact with the absconding accused Abdul Rashid Abdulla, alias Abu Isa, for a long time and has been following his audio clips, including the one he had circulated on social media platform instigating terror attacks in India,” the NIA said. The terror accused said he was also in online contact with Abdul Khayoom, alias Abu Khalid, who is accused in the “Valapattanam ISIS case” and is believed to be in Syria, the NIA said. “He said he has been following speeches/videos of Zahran Hashim of Sri Lanka and Zakir Naik. He admitted that he wanted to carry out a suicide attack in Kerala,” the NIA statement read.
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April - 30 
A retired Delhi Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) was arrested on April 24 from an unspecified location in Delhi for providing arms pro-Khalistan militants, reports Time of India on April 30. The arrestee identified as Sunderlal Parashar was arrested by NIA. He was sent to judicial custody on A
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A retired Delhi Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) was arrested on April 24 from an unspecified location in Delhi for providing arms pro-Khalistan militants, reports Time of India on April 30. The arrestee identified as Sunderlal Parashar was arrested by NIA. He was sent to judicial custody on April 30 till May 14. NIA alleged that the retired Police officer had exchanged 250 calls with another a terror suspect in the case identified as Harpal Singh. He was active on social media, by calling for a separate Khalistan and attempting to revive the militancy, according to National Investigation Agency (NIA). Harpal Singh was arrested on December 2, 2018 by Pune Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). NIA also allege that the accused were planning jail breaks to free Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) militants. Also arrested in the case in December was Delhi resident identified as Mohiuddin Siddiqui. It was alleged that in November 2018 Siddiqui had handed over the illegal weapons to Harpal Singh through another individual.
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May - 2 
The Enforcement Directorate on May 2 attached assets worth INR7.3 million in connection with a terror financing and money laundering case linked to global terrorist Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Pakistan-based proscribed group Falah-e-Insaniyat (FIF), reports The New Indian Express. On May 2, a provision
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The Enforcement Directorate on May 2 attached assets worth INR7.3 million in connection with a terror financing and money laundering case linked to global terrorist Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Pakistan-based proscribed group Falah-e-Insaniyat (FIF), reports The New Indian Express. On May 2, a provisional order was issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and a residential flat and shop in Delhi, and cash and bank balance belonging to a person named Mohd Salman were attached in a case being probed against FIF, which is a front for terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), the agency said. The ED had filed a criminal case in this regard in February after taking cognisance of a National Investigation Agency (NIA) FIR. In the case, the NIA had carried out searches in the past and had seized over four dozen SIM cards, phones and INR 1.56 crore cash, and arrested four people, including Salman. Salman, who was based in Delhi, was in "regular touch with a Dubai-based Pakistan national, who in turn was connected with the deputy chief of the FIF", the ED and NIA have claimed. Salman, at present, is lodged at the Tihar jail in connection with the NIA case. He is alleged to have received funds from FIF operators through Hawala and he and others were reported to have received money illegally from various persons, including those in Pakistan and the UAE, the ED had said earlier.
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May - 2 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 2 carried out searches at 20 locations in Tamil Nadu in connection with the February 5 murder of PattaliMakkalKatchi (PMK) functionary Ramalingam in Thanjavur in which members of Popular Front of India (PFI) have been named as accused in the case, repor
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 2 carried out searches at 20 locations in Tamil Nadu in connection with the February 5 murder of PattaliMakkalKatchi (PMK) functionary Ramalingam in Thanjavur in which members of Popular Front of India (PFI) have been named as accused in the case, reports The Indian Express. The raids, sources said, were conducted at Kumbakonam, Thanjavur, Trichy and Karaikal in connection with the case. NIA recently took over the case from the local police. “Searches were conducted in the houses of the arrested accused, absconding accused persons, and four offices of PFI,” an NIA statement said. The agency recovered 16 mobile phones, 21 SIM cards, three laptops, nine hard disks, seven memory cards, 118 CDs/DVDs, one tab, seven diaries, two PFI banners and one DVR, it claimed. “Besides these, one sword, one sharp-edged knife and cash to the tune of Rs 2 lakh were recovered from three different houses, and about 100 incriminating documents have also been seized,” NIA claimed. Thanjavur Police had arrested 10 people. “Six other accused are still absconding,” the NIA statement said.
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May - 3 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation into the Islamic State (IS) links of Non-resident Keralites (NRKs) found that a Koduvally native with his family had reached till Istanbul airport to join the terrorist group in 2017, reports The New Indian Express on May 4. ShaibuNihar alias Abu
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation into the Islamic State (IS) links of Non-resident Keralites (NRKs) found that a Koduvally native with his family had reached till Istanbul airport to join the terrorist group in 2017, reports The New Indian Express on May 4. ShaibuNihar alias Abu Mariyam was grilled by the NIA recently in which details of IS sympathisers among NRKs were revealed.Shaibu was intercepted from Qatar by the Interpol after which he was forced to return to India. On his arrival at Calicut airport, he was arrested by the NIA last month. In the interrogation, Shaibu revealed he along with seven other members working in Bahrain had decided to join the IS. The agency suspects they were frequent visitors to Al Ansar Salafi Centre in Bahrain where they were radicalized.“There were attempts to attract Keralites working in Middle-East countries to IS ideology. The exact number of Keralites who joined the IS while working in Middle-East countries is yet to be ascertained. The interrogation of Shaibu has helped us in getting details of IS propaganda activities among NRKs,” an officer said.Shaibu of Thamarassery; Mansoor of Kondotty; Mansoor of Vadakara; Shahnad of Kannur; FajidHamsa of Koilandy; Ashraf Moulavi of Vaniyambalam; Safeer Rahman of Perumbavoor, and Muhadis of Vaniyambalam are the members of the module. Of this Shahnad, Manzoor of Kondotty, Mansoor of Vadakara and Muhadis were reportedly killed in Syria.The NIA found Shaibu handed over 3,000 Bahrain Dinar to Safeer Rahman, another member of the module, to reach Syria. Similarly, he also gave financial assistance to Muneer of Thalassery. Muneer was arrested by the police in Saudi Arabia for propagating IS ideology.
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May - 6 
According to a report, a special group headed by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)'s Muzzamil Bhat from Sialkot in Pakistan and his lackeys made forays into Bangladesh, the Maldives and Sri Lanka between 2005 and 2007, knowing well that these areas could be used to further their agenda and to target India, repo
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According to a report, a special group headed by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)'s Muzzamil Bhat from Sialkot in Pakistan and his lackeys made forays into Bangladesh, the Maldives and Sri Lanka between 2005 and 2007, knowing well that these areas could be used to further their agenda and to target India, reports The New Indian Express on May 7. The Indian state had been following Islamic militancy in Sri Lanka since 2004.The tipping point in the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Sri-Lanka had LeT foot prints all over it. Muzzamil Bhat one of the planners of 26/11 and is reported to be the architect of the Chittisinghpora massacre. The entire construct of this planto use these countries as a launch pad to train terrorists was part of his larger architecture.The FBI in its 26/11 charge sheet named Bhat as D, a key LeT military commander, who was involved in the Chittisinghpora massacre in Jammu and Kashmir on the eve of President Bill Clinton's visit to India in March 2000. In its second chargesheet, filed in a Chicago court, the FBI named an ISI officer, Major Iqbal, and four LeT operatives - SajidMajeed, Abu Qahafa, Abu Alqama and the unknown Lashkar member 'D'. About 'D' the charge sheet states that after the arrest of Zaki-ur-RehmanLakhvi in Pakistan in connection with the 26/11 attacks, he became the overall operational commander of LeT. According to FBI, 'D', who is yet to be arrested by Pakistan, was a handler of David Coleman Headley. Headley told Indian investigators that Muzzamil was involved in the Chittisinghpora massacre. In turn, Headley also said Muzzamil was most trustworthy lieutenant of Lakhvi and apart from Chittisinghpora killings of Sikhs; he planned the Akshardham temple attack in September 2002.Bhat, on the other hand, is a planner and his understanding was that with Indian intelligence and security forces keeping a close vigil on southern India in those years, he reckoned that taking the training camps offshore would be a better idea. Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) was already active in southern India, they had set up a southern chapter across the four states, while Bhatkal had become a new centrifuge.Muzzamil arrived in Sri Lanka and quickly realized that there was traction amongst Tamil Muslims after the Tsunami, and in Bangladesh among the Rohingyas between 2004-2008.But Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) which was extremely active in both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka did not allow Bhat or his henchmen to stabilize their operations. In 2011, ably abetted and assisted by Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) officer Amir Zubair Siddiqui (Counselor in the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo), a new name popped up on the radar - Zakir Hussain - who began to actively consort with and recruit Tamil Muslims on the island. The plan was to recruit them and attack diplomatic missions in Chennai and Bangalore, but RAW once again found the scent and pursued them to cut off their feed stock of financing, explosives and weapons.Once RAW had blown his cover, NIA moved in to charge sheet Siddiqui who was then visa counselor at the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo. Siddiqui was arrested for allegedly conspiring to attack vital establishments in India and was quietly withdrawn before the NIA's request under Mutual Assistance Legal Treaty (MLAT) reached Colombo.The terror plot was uncovered after the NIA police personnel arrested an ISI agent Mohammed Zakir Hussain (37) through the 'Q' Branch of the Tamil Nadu police in 2013. The reason was that he was gathering details about vital installations in Tamil Nadu and sent photographs to Siddiqui. Hussain used his counterparts Sivabalan and Mohammad Salim to circulate Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) in the state.During questioning, Hussain also confessed that he had also used Rafeeque (29) to pump in FICN in the state.A much larger network of Maldivians, Sri Lankan Muslims and Malaysian Tamils was discovered through this overarching probe.
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May - 6 
Mohammed Sabir alias Ayub, the fugitive accused, among the most wanted in terrorism cases in Kerela, is settled in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi and using that country’s passport to travel to Dubai. Sabir is an accused in the Kalamassery bus burning case, the trial of which will commence at the N
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Mohammed Sabir alias Ayub, the fugitive accused, among the most wanted in terrorism cases in Kerela, is settled in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi and using that country’s passport to travel to Dubai. Sabir is an accused in the Kalamassery bus burning case, the trial of which will commence at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) court soon, reports The New Indian Express on May 7. “We’ve information that he’s frequently travelling between Dubai and Rawalpindi using a Pakistani passport. As he’s holed up in Pakistan, like Indian Mujahideen (IM) founder Riyaz Bhatkal and underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, extraditing him to India is a daunting task,” an officer said. A native of Marakkarkandi in Kannur, Sabir left India for Dubai when agencies started a manhunt for the suspects having links with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) after four Keralites were killed in Kashmir in an encounter with security forces in 2008.He along with ThadiyantavidaNazeer were the main men for LeT in south India. While Nazeer was traced to a hideout in Bangladesh, Sabir fled to Dubai using a fake passport. “During an interrogation of a terror suspect in 2016, we got information that Sabir met some Keralities in Dubai. From there he moved to Pakistan,” an officer said.Sabir came on the agencies’ radar after he allegedly hatched a plot to murder former Chief Minister E K Nayanar in 1999.A lookout notice and Interpol red corner notice are pending against him.
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May - 7 
An Islamic State (IS) suspect with alleged links to RiyasAboobackeralias Abu Dujana,a member of IS’ Kasargod module in Kerala who was arrested last week and was deported from Doha on May 7 evening, an Intelligence Bureau official familiar with the development said, reports Hindustan Times on May 8.T
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An Islamic State (IS) suspect with alleged links to RiyasAboobackeralias Abu Dujana,a member of IS’ Kasargod module in Kerala who was arrested last week and was deported from Doha on May 7 evening, an Intelligence Bureau official familiar with the development said, reports Hindustan Times on May 8.The National Investigation Agency (NIA) took the custody of the man, identified as Faisal, as soon as he was brought to Delhi.The official said, Faisal, also a native of Kerala, had been in regular touch with Aboobacker, who was arrested last week. The latter was allegedly planning suicide attacks in Kerala after being inspired by the mastermind of Sri Lanka bombings, Maulvi Zahran Bin Hashim, leader of National TowheedJama’at (NTJ).Agencies suspect that IS members, including Aboobacker, Faisal, Abdulla (in Afghanistan) and others were planning something big in India as well.Members of Coimbatore module and Kasargod module of IS in Tamil Nadu and Kerala respectively, were either in touch with Sri Lanka attacks mastermind or followed his speeches.Zahran Hashim and another Sri Lanka bomber, Mohammad Azaan, had travelled to India in 2017 and 2018 to discuss the plans of Islamic State.The NIA has claimed Aboobacker followed speeches/videos of Zahran Hashim for more than a year and had also followed the speeches of Zakir Naik.“Riyas revealed that he was also having online chat with Abdul Khayoom alias Abu Khalid (suspect in the Valapattanam ISIS case) who was believed to be in Syria,” the NIA stated in a statement last week.
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May - 8 
Controversial Islamic preacher ZaikNaik has said he is ready to return to India if the Supreme Court gives an assurance that he would not be arrested till his conviction, report The Indian Express on May 9. Naik is living in Malaysia after fleeing from India in 2016. He has been given permanent resi
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Controversial Islamic preacher ZaikNaik has said he is ready to return to India if the Supreme Court gives an assurance that he would not be arrested till his conviction, report The Indian Express on May 9. Naik is living in Malaysia after fleeing from India in 2016. He has been given permanent resident status by the Malaysian government.“Before the BJP government came, you could speak against the government, and at least 80 per cent of the times you would get justice. Today, the chances are 10-20 per cent.“Moreover, if we see the history, more than 90 per cent Muslims who faced terror charges have been let free after 10-15 years. So if I look at an average, I will be behind bars for about 10 years, and my entire mission would get disrupted. Why should I be a fool,” he said.The preacher said the NIA can question him in Malaysia if they want. When asked whether he will return to India if he has an assurance of justice, Naik said, “If there is an assurance from the Supreme Court of India, that if DrZakirNaik comes, they will not arrest me till I am convicted, I will come.”The preacher was booked by the NIA after his name cropped up during the probe of a terror attack on Gulshan’s Holey Artisan Bakery (cafe) in Dhaka’s posh diplomatic area, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) terror group.The NIA had registered a case against him and his organisation Islamic Research Foundation (IRF) under anti-terror laws and for allegedly promoting enmity between groups on the basis of religion and race.
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May - 9 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Popular Front of India (PFI) member Mohammad Faruk, a resident of Trichy, in connection with the murder of catering contractor Ramalingam in February this year, reports Hindustan Times on May 10. The NIA had earlier carried out searches at 20 loca
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Popular Front of India (PFI) member Mohammad Faruk, a resident of Trichy, in connection with the murder of catering contractor Ramalingam in February this year, reports Hindustan Times on May 10. The NIA had earlier carried out searches at 20 locations, including the houses of accused persons on May 2, in connection with the case during which incriminating material had been seized. A NIA spokesperson said that Mohammed Faruk, 48, was summoned and interviewed and simultaneously search was also conducted at his residence on May 9 during which some digital evidences were seized. “Faruk will be produced before the special NIA Court on May 11. He and other accused had hatched a criminal conspiracy to commit a terror act following which they chopped off the hands of Ramalingam, who later succumbed to injuries on February 6. Accused persons in this case are PFI/SDPI cadres. Tamil Nadu Police had earlier arrested 10 accused in this case. Six other accused are still absconding,” the NIA spokesperson added.
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May - 13 
Nisar Ahmed Sayyed Bilal, whose son Sayyed Azhar died in the 2008 Malegaon blast, filed a plea before a special court on May 13, seeking directions to the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to assist the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the ongoing trial, reports The Indian Express. “The A
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Nisar Ahmed Sayyed Bilal, whose son Sayyed Azhar died in the 2008 Malegaon blast, filed a plea before a special court on May 13, seeking directions to the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) to assist the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the ongoing trial, reports The Indian Express. “The ATS has not been present during the trial proceedings while ATS witness statements are being recorded by this court. It is unfortunate that the investigating agency that recorded material statements and drew panchnamas against the present accused is not interested in the trial proceedings without any cogent reasons,” the application filed by Bilal through lawyer Shahid Nadeem states. “The NIA and ATS must work in symphony for a fair prosecution. Instances such as tracing documents and witnesses have been a herculean task and without the assistance of ATS officers, it becomes even more difficult to deal with such instances, often leading to delays and adjournments,” the plea states. The court has directed the NIA to file its reply on the application on May 20. SPP AvinashRasal has been representing both the NIA and the ATS in the trial since 2015.
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May - 14 
At least three Islamic State (IS) suspects arrested in India in 2015 and 2017 were in contact with an online entity called Aadhil AX from Sri Lanka who could be software engineer Aadhil Ameez, arrested last month in Colombo for providing technical and logistical support to the bombers in the April 2
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At least three Islamic State (IS) suspects arrested in India in 2015 and 2017 were in contact with an online entity called Aadhil AX from Sri Lanka who could be software engineer Aadhil Ameez, arrested last month in Colombo for providing technical and logistical support to the bombers in the April 21 Easter terror attack, reports The Hindu on May 15. Aadhil was monitored by Indian intelligence agencies three years ago for links with IS suspects. Two IS suspects, Ubed Mirza and Kasim Stimberwala, arrested by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad in 2017 were allegedly in touch with Aadhil through WhatsApp. Both Stimberwala and Ubed are in judicial custody in Surat and have been charge sheeted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), which accused them of plotting a lone wolf attack in Ahmedabad. Ubed is a lawyer while Stimberwala is a medical technician and both were arrested by Gujarat’s ATS. As per the charge sheet filed by the NIA, Ubed, in 2017, had a WhatsApp chat with one Aadhil but ATS officials said did not find any other actionable intelligence. “Except a few chats on social media, no other material or connection or link has been found,” said a Gujarat police official said. A source said another IS suspect, Mohammad Naser, deported from Sudan in 2015 was also in online contact with Aadhil AX from Sri Lanka. It is not clear if the Indian authorities shared the information with the Sri Lankan authorities.
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May - 29 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) Officials are in Colombo to probe two Islamic State (IS)-related cases, which could have possible links to the April 21 Easter terror attack that killed more than 250 people, reports The Hindu on May 29. A senior government official said a two-member NIA team was
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) Officials are in Colombo to probe two Islamic State (IS)-related cases, which could have possible links to the April 21 Easter terror attack that killed more than 250 people, reports The Hindu on May 29. A senior government official said a two-member NIA team was in Sri Lanka in connection with the two IS-related cases, registered by the agency in 2015 and 2018. One of the cases was registered in October 2018 by NIA, which pertained to a “criminal conspiracy to kill some Hindu leaders of Coimbatore.” The FIR registered by NIA said, "a group of seven persons from different parts of Tamil Nadu formed a terrorist gang with allegiance to IS and had entered into a criminal conspiracy to kill some Hindu leaders of Coimbatore, thereby threatening the communal harmony besides the security and sovereignty of India." The other case was registered by NIA against an IS suspect Mohammad Naser in 2015.An IS suspect- Mohammad Naser deported from Sudan in 2015 was in online contact with one cyber entity Aadhil AX from Sri Lanka, who could be software engineer Aadhil Ameez, arrested last month in Colombo for providing technical and logistical support to the bombers in the Easter terror attack.
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June - 4 
A Delhi court on June 4 sent Kashmiri separatists Masarat Alam, Asiya Andrabi and Shabir Shah to 10-day National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody in a terror funding case involving the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jama’at-ud-Dawa (JuD) ‘chief’ Hafiz Saeed, reports Daily Excelsior. The
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A Delhi court on June 4 sent Kashmiri separatists Masarat Alam, Asiya Andrabi and Shabir Shah to 10-day National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody in a terror funding case involving the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Jama’at-ud-Dawa (JuD) ‘chief’ Hafiz Saeed, reports Daily Excelsior. The NIA arrested the three during in-chamber proceedings before Special Judge Rakesh Syal and sought 15-day custodial interrogation. Asiya and Shah were already in custody in separate cases while Alam was brought from Jammu and Kashmir on transit remand, advocate MS Khan appearing for the accused said.
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June - 11 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested an accused, Sabiruddin (46), who was wanted in a Fake Indian Currency Notes(FICN) circulation case and was absconding for the past nine months, reports New Indian Express on June 11. The accused was wanted in a case related to the recovery of FICN wor
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested an accused, Sabiruddin (46), who was wanted in a Fake Indian Currency Notes(FICN) circulation case and was absconding for the past nine months, reports New Indian Express on June 11. The accused was wanted in a case related to the recovery of FICN worth INR 684,000 in Bengaluru on2018. The arrested a resident of Krishnapur Chama in Malda District of West Bengal. “Accused Sabiruddin was arrested from Malda. A mobile phone and personal documents were seized from him. He was produced before the CJM [Chief Judicial Magistrate] Court in Malda, which has granted four days’ transit remand. He is being brought to Bengaluru to produce him before the NIA Special Court,” a NIA release stated.
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June - 12 
The National investigating Agency (NIA) on June 12 raided seven locations in Coimbatore in connection with a new Islamic State (IS) module based in Coimbatore whose leader Mohammad Azarudeen is a 'Facebook friend' of Zahran Hashim, the Sri Lankan mastermind of the Easter Sunday bombings was arrested
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The National investigating Agency (NIA) on June 12 raided seven locations in Coimbatore in connection with a new Islamic State (IS) module based in Coimbatore whose leader Mohammad Azarudeen is a 'Facebook friend' of Zahran Hashim, the Sri Lankan mastermind of the Easter Sunday bombings was arrested along with five others during the raid, reports Times of India. The NIA had registered a case against Azarudeen, Akram Sindhaa, Y Shiekh Hidayathullah, Abubacker M, Sadham Hussain and A, Ibrahim alias Shahin Shah, all from Coimbatoreon May 30.The leader of the IS module Mohammed Azarudeen,maintained a Facebook page named 'KhilafahGFX’ to radicalise youth, was arrested, other five accused were detained and are being questioned on the materials seized in the raids, said an unnamed NIA officer. Further, NIA recovered 14 mobile phones, 29 SIM cards, 10 pen drives, 3 laptops, 6 memory cards, 4 hard disc drives, 1 internet dongle and 13 CDs/ DVDs besides one dagger, one electric baton, 300 air-gun pellets and a large no. of incriminating documents and few PFI/ SDPI pamphlets during the raids.
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June - 12 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on June 12 (today) raided eight locations in Coimbatore over a suspected link between an Islamic State (IS) module based in Coimbatore District and the April 21 Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, reports News 18. More than 250 persons were killed in the multiple bla
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on June 12 (today) raided eight locations in Coimbatore over a suspected link between an Islamic State (IS) module based in Coimbatore District and the April 21 Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, reports News 18. More than 250 persons were killed in the multiple blats on April 21, 2019. Business Standard adds that Anbu Nagar, Podanur and Kuniyamuthur were some of the locations where the raid was conducted by the NIA. The raids are still underway.
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June - 12 
The NIA (National Investigation Agency) arrested one Mohammad Arif Ghulambashir Dharampuria (44), a resident of Valsad District in Gujarat, who arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) of Delhi from Dubai on June 12, in connection with a case linked to the Pakistan-based outfit Fala
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The NIA (National Investigation Agency) arrested one Mohammad Arif Ghulambashir Dharampuria (44), a resident of Valsad District in Gujarat, who arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) of Delhi from Dubai on June 12, in connection with a case linked to the Pakistan-based outfit Falah-I-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF), reports Daily Excelsior.Mohammad was “evading examination and arrest by hiding himself in Dubai, UAE for long and a Look Out Circular (LOC) was issued by the NIA against him”, a senior official said.
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June - 14 
The National Investigating Agency (NIA) arrested another Coimbatore resident, Sheik Hidayathullah, (38), in an Islamic State-related case linked to Easter terror attacks in Sri Lanka, reports The Hindu on June 15. He was initially detained on June 12 during the raids conducted by the NIA in Coimbato
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The National Investigating Agency (NIA) arrested another Coimbatore resident, Sheik Hidayathullah, (38), in an Islamic State-related case linked to Easter terror attacks in Sri Lanka, reports The Hindu on June 15. He was initially detained on June 12 during the raids conducted by the NIA in Coimbatore.
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June - 24 
A suspect in the 2014 Burdwan blast case who had been missing was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Dodaballapur region in Banglore Rural District of Karnataka on June 24 night and was sent in transit on June 25 for production in a Special NIA court in Kolkata in five days’ time
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A suspect in the 2014 Burdwan blast case who had been missing was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Dodaballapur region in Banglore Rural District of Karnataka on June 24 night and was sent in transit on June 25 for production in a Special NIA court in Kolkata in five days’ time, reports Indian Express. The case involves a bomb blast that occurred in a house in the Khagragarh locality Burdwan town on October 2, 2014, in which two people engaged in preparing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) were killed.The accused was identified as Habibur Rehman Sk alias Habibur Sk alias Sheikh alias HabiburKaboreShaik, a resident of West Bengal. Linked to the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), the 28-year-old has been identified as the accused number 25 in the Burdwan case.Rahman was named in a charge sheet in the case as a resident of a JMB safehouse where a gun was found. He was “earlier charge sheeted on 30.03.15 in this case for his direct involvement in the conspiracy of JMB to wage war against Government of India and Bangladesh”, the NIA said in an official note.
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July - 1 
A special court on July 1 rejected the bail plea of a retired Delhi Police official, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for allegedly providing a weapon to an accused linked to a group attempting to revive Sikh militancy for a separate Khalistan, reports The Indian Express.
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A special court on July 1 rejected the bail plea of a retired Delhi Police official, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for allegedly providing a weapon to an accused linked to a group attempting to revive Sikh militancy for a separate Khalistan, reports The Indian Express. The court on July 1 rejected 62-year-old Sundarlal Parashar’s bail application. He was arrested on April 24, following which a charge sheet was filed against him on May 23. In his bail plea, Parashar said there was no evidence presented by the NIA that could show his involvement in the alleged conspiracy. The NIA had invoked sections under the Arms Act against him, stating that Parashar had provided a pistol and live rounds, which was recovered from another accused in the case named Moinuddin Siddiqui. According to the NIA, Siddiqui gave the weapon to another accused, Harpal Singh. The NIA alleged that Singh was active on social media, seeking the creation of a separate Khalistan and had links with a radical group called Babbar Khalsa International (BKI).
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July - 1 
The Supreme Court (SC) on July 1 rejected a plea filed by Popular Front of India (PFI) member, Asim Sharif challenging framing of charges against him for his alleged involvement in the killing of an RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) activist in Bengaluru in 2016, reports India Today. The RSS worker,
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The Supreme Court (SC) on July 1 rejected a plea filed by Popular Front of India (PFI) member, Asim Sharif challenging framing of charges against him for his alleged involvement in the killing of an RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) activist in Bengaluru in 2016, reports India Today. The RSS worker, Rudresh was hacked to death in the Shivajinagar area in Bengaluru City in Bengaluru District of Karnataka in October 2016. Five persons including Asim Sharif were arrested in the case and a National Investigation Agency (NIA) court had framed charges against them. PFI is a political organisation that operates mainly in Kerala. It has been accused of having links with the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
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July - 7 
A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigators from Kolkata and the Internal Security Division of Karnataka Police conducted searches at multiple locations on the outskirts of Bengaluru in Karnataka on July 7, reports The Times of India. NIA officials said that the raids were linked to
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A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigators from Kolkata and the Internal Security Division of Karnataka Police conducted searches at multiple locations on the outskirts of Bengaluru in Karnataka on July 7, reports The Times of India. NIA officials said that the raids were linked to the three locations where Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror suspect, Habibur Rehman SK had stayed. The unconfirmed reports also said that explosives, including bombs, were recovered in the raids. As SATP reported earlier, Rehman was arrested in connection with the 2014 Burdwan blast case (West Bengal) from Bengaluru on June 25 and is in NIA custody for interrogation.
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July - 9 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Kochi (Ernakulam District of Kerala) on July 9 resumed trial against Subahani Haja Moideen, who allegedly fought for Islamic State (IS) in Iraq in 2015, reports The New Indian Express. The NIA Court examined a witness in the case registered against Su
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) Court in Kochi (Ernakulam District of Kerala) on July 9 resumed trial against Subahani Haja Moideen, who allegedly fought for Islamic State (IS) in Iraq in 2015, reports The New Indian Express. The NIA Court examined a witness in the case registered against Subahani Haja Moideen. Though the trial in the case was started at NIA Court last year (2018), it was postponed as witness examination in Kanakamala IS case was progressing. There are 55 witnesses in the case. It was during the investigation into the Kanakamala IS case that the NIA traced out Subahani who allegedly joined and fought for IS at Mosul in 2015. However, after witnessing the death of a co-fighter on the war front, he returned to India. In December 2018, a French investigation team visited Viyyur Central Jail (Thrissur District) to quiz Subahani as part of probe into the 2015 Paris attack. NIA had shared information with French authorities that Subahani fought for Omer-Kathi-Kaliph.
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July - 10 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court in Lucknow on July 10 convicted five operatives of the ‘Babbar Khalsa 2020’ outfit facing charges under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and also conspiring to assassinate former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in 2018, apart
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) special court in Lucknow on July 10 convicted five operatives of the ‘Babbar Khalsa 2020’ outfit facing charges under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and also conspiring to assassinate former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in 2018, apart from supporting the Khalistan movement, reports The Indian Express. Four of them had also attacked and looted two service rifles from Policemen in Shamli District of Uttar Pradesh last year (2018) to use the weapons in the attack on Badal. While four of the accused were sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, another was sentenced to five years. The NIA had filed chargesheet against five accused, Gurjant Singh alias Jinta of Saharanpur, Amrit Singh of Haryana, Karam Singh, Karamveer Singh and Jarman Singh, who belong to Shamli, on April 11. They were lodged in Lucknow District jail.
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July - 13 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had busted a “terrorist gang Ansarulla,” based in Nagapattinam District of Tamil Nadu that was formed with the intention of establishing Islamic rule in India, reports Indian Express. The gang had allegedly conspired, collected funds and made preparations to c
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had busted a “terrorist gang Ansarulla,” based in Nagapattinam District of Tamil Nadu that was formed with the intention of establishing Islamic rule in India, reports Indian Express. The gang had allegedly conspired, collected funds and made preparations to carry out terrorist attacks in India. “It has also been learnt that the accused persons and their associates had collected funds and made preparations to carry out terrorist attacks in India, with the intention of establishing Islamic rule in India,” the NIA release on July 13 said. NIA officials have carried out in Chennai and Nagapattinam District. The case related to the gang was registered on July 9, 2019 against three individuals namely Syed Bukhari, a resident of Chennai; Hassan Ali Yunusmaricar, and Mohammed Yusuffudeen Harish Mohamed, both of whom are natives of Nagappattinam. The NIA carried out searches at the house and office of Syed Mohammed Bukhari In Chennai and the homes of Hassan Ali and Harish Mohammed in Nagapattinam district. NIA during the searches recovered nine mobile phones, 15 SIM cards, 7 memory cards, 3 laptops, 5 hard discs, 6 pen drives, 2 tablets and 3 CDs/ DVDs besides documents, including magazines, banners, notices, posters and books were seized by the NIA.
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July - 14 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two persons, identified as Hassan Ali (28), and Harish Mohamed (32) for allegedly conspiring to form a terror group in the State from Nagapattinam District of Tamil Nadu on July 14, reports Hindustan Times. The duo was arrested a day after a 14-member
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two persons, identified as Hassan Ali (28), and Harish Mohamed (32) for allegedly conspiring to form a terror group in the State from Nagapattinam District of Tamil Nadu on July 14, reports Hindustan Times. The duo was arrested a day after a 14-member team of NIA officials conducted raids on July 13 at four locations in Chennai and Nagapattinam and busted a gang which allegedly conspired, collected funds and made preparations to carry out terrorist attacks in India with the intention of establishing Islamic rule in the country. The NIA said it recovered nine mobiles, 15 SIM cards, seven memory cards, three laptops, five hard discs, six pen drives, two tablets and three CDs/DVDs besides documents including magazines, banners, notices, posters and books during the raids on July 13. NIA, in its statement, said that the arrests were made on the basis of “incriminating facts revealed during the searches and subsequent investigation”. It added that Ali and Mohamed were produced in a special NIA court in Chennai and remanded in the agency’s custody until July 24. The Times of India adds that according to NIA sources, a new Tamil Nadu based terror outfit, ‘Ansarulla’ was “planning to strike at democratic institutions with terror acts in order to establish the rule of Sharia in the country”. NIA had on July 9 registered a case against three identified accused and others based on NIA’s information regarding the group’s plans to strike terror in the country, for which they had collected funds and made preparations. “The group’s intention was to strike at the democratic institutions of India with the intention of establishing supremacy of Sharia law,” an NIA officer said. The NIA also said that the accused and others “while being within and beyond India, had conspired and conducted consequent preparations to wage war against the Government of India by forming the terrorist gang Ansarulla”. As for the linkages of the Ansarulla to a known jihadi outfit like the Islamic State (IS), an officer said the same shall be established after forensically examining the documents and computer resources recovered during the searches.
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July - 15 
Fourteen persons, deported for allegedly raising funds in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for an Islamic State in India, were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), reports The Hindu. They were brought in a special aircraft to Chennai (Tamil Nadu) from New Delhi on July 15 and remanded
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Fourteen persons, deported for allegedly raising funds in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for an Islamic State in India, were arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), reports The Hindu. They were brought in a special aircraft to Chennai (Tamil Nadu) from New Delhi on July 15 and remanded in judicial custody after being produced before a special court for NIA cases in Poonamallee on the Chennai city’s outskirts. The arrests were made by the NIA following the registration of an FIR in New Delhi on receipt of credible information by the Central Government that the group which called itself Wahdat-e-Islami, along with another called Jarnab Islam Al Jihadya, was trying to establish Islamic rule in India. They had allegedly received training from the ‘Ansarullah Movement’ in Yemen. According to NIA sources, the group members were influenced by al Qaeda and Islamic State (IS) and were from Melapalayam (Tirunelveli District), Tiruvarur (Thiruvarur District), Nagapattinam (Nagapattinam District), Ramanathapuram (Ramanathapuram District) and Chennai (Chennai District). They were engaged in raising funds for the purpose of committing acts of terror. The Special Public Prosecutor, C.S. Pillai said, “The UAE authorities detained them and deported them.” They were first produced before a Delhi court on July 14 After granting transit remand, the court directed that they be produced before the jurisdictional court concerned in the State (as they hailed from Tamil Nadu), said NIA officials. The NIA named Hassan Ali Yunus Maraikayar as prime accused. Among the other members are: Mohammed Sheik, Mohhamed Azharuddin, Thoufik Ahamed, Mohammed Aksar, Moideen Seeni Shahul Hameed, Mohammed Ibrahim, Meeran Kani and Mohammed Ibrahim.
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July - 15 
The Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) on July 15 passed a bill to give more powers to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) with Union Home Minister (UHM) Amit Shah asserting that the law will be used to finish off terrorism and not to target any community, reports The Times of India. T
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The Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian Parliament) on July 15 passed a bill to give more powers to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) with Union Home Minister (UHM) Amit Shah asserting that the law will be used to finish off terrorism and not to target any community, reports The Times of India. The amendments to the NIA Act will allow the agency to probe terrorist acts against Indians and Indian interests abroad, cybercrimes and cases of human trafficking. Amit Shah said that terrorism is neither "Left nor Right" and doesn't have any religion, caste, colour or gender. He also said the Government will take all stakeholders along in fighting terrorism in a zero-tolerance policy.
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July - 16 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the Islamic State (IS) terror module in Tamil Nadu revealed the terror sleeper cell’s links with the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), reports Times Now on July 17. Earlier NIA conducted raids in several locations after 14 per
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the Islamic State (IS) terror module in Tamil Nadu revealed the terror sleeper cell’s links with the banned outfit Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), reports Times Now on July 17. Earlier NIA conducted raids in several locations after 14 persons were deported from the UAE on July 15 for allegedly raising funds to establish an IS unit in India. The NIA also questioned the prime accused in the case, identified as Syed Bukhari, who is believed to be a former cadre of SIMI and is the president of an outfit called Wahadat-e-Islam, which is supposedly an offshoot of the banned outfit SIMI. Bukhari was currently in Kochi (Ernakulam District of Kerala) for further questioning. According to sources, Wahadat-e-Islam was registered as a ‘social organisation’ from Saharanpur in Saharanpur District of Uttar Pradesh in 2006. The president of the organisation, Syed Bhukari is a businessman. The organisation has held several meetings across Tamil Nadu. Ever since it was established in Tamil Nadu, the group had been under the radar of intelligence agencies. However, the outfit has denied having any connection with SIMI, with its leaders claiming that it was only a religious and social organisation.
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July - 16 
The statements of 14 Islamic radicals, who were deported from UAE and later arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA), revealed a ‘meticulous plan to foment unrest’ in Tamil Nadu using terror modules/activities, reports The Times of India on July 17. NIA officials said one of the suspects, Has
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The statements of 14 Islamic radicals, who were deported from UAE and later arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA), revealed a ‘meticulous plan to foment unrest’ in Tamil Nadu using terror modules/activities, reports The Times of India on July 17. NIA officials said one of the suspects, Hasan Ali, is an Islamic State (IS) operative assigned to collect explosives, poison, vehicles and knives and also get recruits. Ali and his associate Harish Mohammed were arrested from Nagapattinam District of Tamil Nadu on July 14 while the other 14 suspects were arrested on July 15. All 16 suspects were produced before a special court at Poonamalee on July 16 and were remanded in judicial custody till July 25. An official of the NIA said the suspects had formed several fronts, such as Wahadat-e-Islami, Jamaat Wahadat-ui-Islam-al-Jihadiya, Jihadist Islamic Unit and Ansarallah, to ‘spread terror’ and ‘establish an Islamic State’ in Tamil Nadu.
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July - 17 
The NIA who had recovered electronic gadgets, including mobile phones and laptops, after raiding the residences and offices of some members of the ‘Shahadat (martyrdom) is our goal’ WhatsApp group, have sent them to the Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC), a division of the Centre for Development of Adv
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The NIA who had recovered electronic gadgets, including mobile phones and laptops, after raiding the residences and offices of some members of the ‘Shahadat (martyrdom) is our goal’ WhatsApp group, have sent them to the Knowledge Resource Centre (KRC), a division of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), for retrieval of data, reports The Hindu on July 18. Sources said the three laptops and as many hard disks, 16 mobile phones, eight SIM cards, two pen drives, five memory cards and a card reader, seized from the accused in Kilakarai and Devipattinam in the Ramanathapuram District and from places in other districts, had been sent to KRC - C-DAC in Thiruvananthapuram for retrieving data, deleted messages and video clips. The accused were active in an exclusive WhatsApp group and had conspired to raise funds to procure arms to eliminate those who spoke against Islam. The NIA initially believed that the accused were ‘novices’ who made a vain bid to procure a pistol, but detailed investigation revealed that they had established a strong network with Coimbatore-based Kaja Mohideen, leader of a radical outfit, who believed in setting up a unit of the IS in India, sources said.
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July - 18 
The 16 arrested members of Tamil Nadu-based radical Islamist outfit ‘Ansarulla’ busted by National Investigation Agency (NIA) last week, were inspired by global jihadi groups like Islamic State (IS), al Qaeda and homegrown terrorist outfit Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), reports The Time
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The 16 arrested members of Tamil Nadu-based radical Islamist outfit ‘Ansarulla’ busted by National Investigation Agency (NIA) last week, were inspired by global jihadi groups like Islamic State (IS), al Qaeda and homegrown terrorist outfit Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), reports The Times of India. NIA on July 18 said that the accused persons - nine of who were arrested on July 13 and the remaining seven on July 15 - had been actively recruiting individuals to strike terror in India and also routinely posting videos and other jihadi propaganda material on social media, exhorting their supporters to conduct terrorist attacks using various methods including the use of explosives, poison, knives and vehicles. NIA said Ansarulla, comprising allegedly highly-radicalised individuals residing within India and abroad, had conspired and conducted preparations including collecting money to wage war against the Government of India with the intention of establishing Islamic rule in India. According to NIA, on July 13, they had arrested nine accused namely Hassan Ali, native of Nagapattinam; Harish Mohamed hailing from Nagapattinam; Mohamed Ibrahim, native of Nagapattinam; Meeran Ghani, native of Theni; Gulam Nabi Asath, native of Peramballur; Rafi Ahamed, native of Ramanathapuram; Munthasir, native of Ramanathapuram; Umar Barook, native of Thanjavur; and Farook, native of Ramanathapuram. Subsequently, on July 15, NIA arrested seven more accused in the case namely Mohamed Sheik Maitheen, native of Madurai; Ahamed Azarudhen, native of Thiruvarur; Toufiq Ahmed, native of Chennai; Mohamed Ibrahim, native of Tirunelveli; Mohammed Afzar, native of Theni; Mohideen Seeni Shahul Hameed, native of Ramanathapuram and Faizal Sharief, native of Ramanathapuram.
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July - 19 
NIA team arrived in Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu on July 19 to enquire about five accused, who hailed from the District and formed part of the 14 accused arrested by them and deported from United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week for allegedly raising funds for setting up an Islamic State in In
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NIA team arrived in Ramanathapuram District of Tamil Nadu on July 19 to enquire about five accused, who hailed from the District and formed part of the 14 accused arrested by them and deported from United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week for allegedly raising funds for setting up an Islamic State in India, reports The Hindu. Sources said that before formally launching enquiries, the sleuths visited the locations of the accused. They are likely to form five teams and launch simultaneous searches in the five houses and check their antecedents on July 20.
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July - 22 
Tamil Nadu Police on July 22 arrested a 39-year-old man, identified as M Thaj alias Thajudheen after he posted some messages on an instant messaging app criticising the recent raids and arrests of some people in the state by the National Investigative Agency (NIA), reports The Times of India. He was
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Tamil Nadu Police on July 22 arrested a 39-year-old man, identified as M Thaj alias Thajudheen after he posted some messages on an instant messaging app criticising the recent raids and arrests of some people in the state by the National Investigative Agency (NIA), reports The Times of India. He was arrested from Muthupettai in Tiruvaur District of Tamil Nadu. His message said the NIA had been targeting Muslims as per the orders of the Union Government. The NIA has been conducting searches in the houses of some people associated with the Ansarulla terror group which had planned to set up Islamic rule in India by waging war against the Union Government. The NIA arrested a total of 16 persons in connection with this.
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July - 22 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 22 sought time before the Bombay High Court (Mumbai in Maharashtra) to decide whether a truncated copy alone can be supplied to the accused facing trial in the September 2008 Malegaon blast case, reports The Times of India. NIA counsel Sandesh Patil sa
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 22 sought time before the Bombay High Court (Mumbai in Maharashtra) to decide whether a truncated copy alone can be supplied to the accused facing trial in the September 2008 Malegaon blast case, reports The Times of India. NIA counsel Sandesh Patil said the agency will not examine prosecution witnesses whose names were not disclosed in the truncated list supplied to the accused in the on-going trial before a special court in Mumbai. The HC will hear the matter now on August 2. One of the accused Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Purohit, had filed a plea to demanding the list of names of witnesses and an untruncated chargesheet copy.
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July - 27 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials on July 27, in connection with the narcotics terror case in Amritsar in Punjab, visited the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari-Wagah border between India and Pakistan, reports DNA. A team formed of NIA officials, Customs officers and Punjab Police
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials on July 27, in connection with the narcotics terror case in Amritsar in Punjab, visited the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari-Wagah border between India and Pakistan, reports DNA. A team formed of NIA officials, Customs officers and Punjab Police interrogated the importers at the ICP and asked for the list which contained the list of the goods which are being transported from across the border. The team also procured information related to the clearance agents working at the ICP. The team has been formed as the Centre designated the issue concerned with Narco-terrorism after two drug hauls at ICP and Delhi. Reportedly, 532 kilograms and 200 kilograms of heroin were seized at the ICP and Delhi respectively and the Delhi Police found a connection of the drug haul with the Afghan terrorists.
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August - 2 
With the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) issuing a notification on August 2, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will now be able to investigate acts against Indians and Indian interests abroad, reports The Asian Age. The notification comes after Parliament cleared amendments to the NIA Ac
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With the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) issuing a notification on August 2, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will now be able to investigate acts against Indians and Indian interests abroad, reports The Asian Age. The notification comes after Parliament cleared amendments to the NIA Act to give additional powers to the agency that also allow it to probe cases of human trafficking and cybercrime. The UMHA notification states, “In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 1 of the National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Act, 2019 (16 of 2019), the Central government hereby appoints the 2nd August, 2019, as the date on which the provisions of the said Act shall come into force.” Following these changes in the Act, the NIA will now be able to investigate terror attacks on Indians and their interests abroad apart from cases of human trafficking, counterfeit currency, manufacture or sale of prohibited arms, cyber-terrorism, and offences under the Explosive Substances Act, 1908.
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August - 11 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a militant of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), identified as Jahirul Sheikh, on August 11 from Indore, Madhya Pradesh in connection with the 2014 Burdwan blast case, reports News 18. Two persons were killed and another was injured in a bomb
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested a militant of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), identified as Jahirul Sheikh, on August 11 from Indore, Madhya Pradesh in connection with the 2014 Burdwan blast case, reports News 18. Two persons were killed and another was injured in a bomb explosion at a house in the Khagragarh locality of Burdwan on October 2, 2014.
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August - 21 
Delhi court on August 21 sent Rashid Engineer, a former independent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Abdul Rashid to judicial custody in a case related to funding of terror activities, reports Daily Excelsior. District Judge Yashwant Kumar sent Rashid to the custody
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Delhi court on August 21 sent Rashid Engineer, a former independent Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Abdul Rashid to judicial custody in a case related to funding of terror activities, reports Daily Excelsior. District Judge Yashwant Kumar sent Rashid to the custody for two weeks after the NIA produced him before the court on expiry of his custodial interrogation. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had registered the case unidentified members of the Hurriyat Conference (HC) and other secessionist leaders who have been acting in connivance with Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and other outfits.
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August - 28 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided five locations in Coimbatore (Coimbatore District), Tamil Nadu and has captured Laptops, mobile phones, SIM cards, & pen-drives in an Islamic State-related (IS) terror-funding investigation, reports India Today on August 29.
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided five locations in Coimbatore (Coimbatore District), Tamil Nadu and has captured Laptops, mobile phones, SIM cards, & pen-drives in an Islamic State-related (IS) terror-funding investigation, reports India Today on August 29.
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August - 28 
The Union Home Ministry told a Tribunal constituted under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) that the Students Islamic Movements of India (SIMI) was filing applications under the Right to Information Act (RTI) to help its members under trial in various courts, reports The Hindu on Augus
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The Union Home Ministry told a Tribunal constituted under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) that the Students Islamic Movements of India (SIMI) was filing applications under the Right to Information Act (RTI) to help its members under trial in various courts, reports The Hindu on August 29. To impose the recent ban, the Tribunal examined at least 34 cases registered against the members of SIMI since January 2014 and noted that activists of SIMI continue to have “links with number of other terrorist organizations Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Islamic State (IS), Indian Mujahideen (IM) etc.” The Tamil Nadu Police deposed that “SIMI activists/cadres are regrouping themselves under the banner of Wahadat-e-Islaami Hind (WeIH) to expand their militant outreach among Muslim youth under the guise of spreading Islamic ideology. SIMI activists under the guise of WeIH continue to hold meetings, classes, symposium, seminars etc. to spread their anti-national ideology.” The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Delhi Police told the Tribunal that terror outfit Indian Mujahideen’s chief Riyaz Bhatkal “was making his efforts and using the cadres of SIMI for furthering the unlawful activities of IM.”
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August - 28 
Total 19, including four Bangladeshi nationals, who were booked in connection with Burdwan blast case in 2014, pled guilty in the city sessions court, Kolkata, on August 28, reports New Indian Express. The chief judge, Siddhartha Kanjilal, said he would pronounce the quantum of punishment on August
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Total 19, including four Bangladeshi nationals, who were booked in connection with Burdwan blast case in 2014, pled guilty in the city sessions court, Kolkata, on August 28, reports New Indian Express. The chief judge, Siddhartha Kanjilal, said he would pronounce the quantum of punishment on August 30. The blast at East Burdwan's Khagragarh in West Bengal took place in October 2014 killed two people. Investigations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) revealed the hands of Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) behind the explosion.
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August - 29 
The arrest of three key operatives of the banned terrorist organisation - Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen-Bangladesh (JMB) in the last one year by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has exposed that JMB had regrouped and formed a new sleeper cell - JMB, Bengaluru, reports New Indian Express on August 30.
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The arrest of three key operatives of the banned terrorist organisation - Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen-Bangladesh (JMB) in the last one year by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has exposed that JMB had regrouped and formed a new sleeper cell - JMB, Bengaluru, reports New Indian Express on August 30. The official said that the three JMB members - Najir Sheikh alias Patla Anas, Habib-ur-Rehman and Jahidul Islam alias Kausar alias Aijul Mondal - were on the run since the Burdwan blast in 2014 and had escaped to Bengaluru, where they were regrouping themselves.
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August - 30 
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on August 30 sentenced 19 people, including four Bangladeshi nationals, to jail terms ranging from six to 10 years in the Khagragarh blast case, reports Times of India. Out of the 19 sentenced, four Bangladeshis convicted in the case were awarded 1
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A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on August 30 sentenced 19 people, including four Bangladeshi nationals, to jail terms ranging from six to 10 years in the Khagragarh blast case, reports Times of India. Out of the 19 sentenced, four Bangladeshis convicted in the case were awarded 10 years' rigorous imprisonment and would be sent back to their country following completion of sentence. Two women and a young man, who claimed to be a student, were sentenced to six years' rigorous imprisonment. The rest 12 convicts were sentenced to various terms from eight years to 10 years in prison. Trial of the remaining 12 accused in the case would continue, NIA lawyer Shyamal Ghosh said.
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August - 30 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on August 30 interrogated two Coimbatore natives who are suspected to be members of an Islamic State (IS) module, reports New Indian Express. NIA has summoned more persons to appear before its probing team in Kochi on August 31.
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on August 30 interrogated two Coimbatore natives who are suspected to be members of an Islamic State (IS) module, reports New Indian Express. NIA has summoned more persons to appear before its probing team in Kochi on August 31.
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August - 31 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has questioned five persons in Kochi, Kerala, who were suspected to be linked with Islamic State (IS), reports mynation.com on September 1. As SATP reported earlier, NIA on August 29, raided five locations in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu at the residences of Umar Fa
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has questioned five persons in Kochi, Kerala, who were suspected to be linked with Islamic State (IS), reports mynation.com on September 1. As SATP reported earlier, NIA on August 29, raided five locations in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu at the residences of Umar Farooq, Sanabar Ali, Sameena Mubin, Muhammad Yasir, Sadam Hussain.
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September - 4 
A Constable of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and a staff were arrested for allegedly stealing Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) worth INR 15 million from NIA headquarters on Lodhi road in South Delhi District, reports The Hindu on September 5. An NIA Official claimed the suspects, identifi
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A Constable of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and a staff were arrested for allegedly stealing Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) worth INR 15 million from NIA headquarters on Lodhi road in South Delhi District, reports The Hindu on September 5. An NIA Official claimed the suspects, identified as Constable Sunil Kumar and pantry staff Ashok Kumar, mistook the fake notes for genuine ones.
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September - 5 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 5 said that a supplementary charge sheet against Sabiruddin, a resident of Malda District, West Bengal, has been filed in the Rs 6.34 lakh Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case in Bengaluru, Karnataka, reports Hindustan times. The NIA had already
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 5 said that a supplementary charge sheet against Sabiruddin, a resident of Malda District, West Bengal, has been filed in the Rs 6.34 lakh Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) case in Bengaluru, Karnataka, reports Hindustan times. The NIA had already filed a charge sheet against the four accused -- Mohammed Sajjad Ali, M G Raju, Gangadhar Ramappa Kolkar and Vanitha J on November 3, 2018 -- under relevant provisions of the IPC, and one supplementary charge sheet was filed on March 8 this year against Abdul Kadir as per their role in commission of the offence, the statement said. During further investigation, it was found that Sabiruddin, was involved in the case.
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September - 9 
Testimony in a United States (US) court has revived news about Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, news24.com reports on September 10. Ibrahim's name came up during testimony by Vicky Goswami, the mandrax smuggler who lived in South Africa in the early 1990s and turned State witness following his extradition to
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Testimony in a United States (US) court has revived news about Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, news24.com reports on September 10. Ibrahim's name came up during testimony by Vicky Goswami, the mandrax smuggler who lived in South Africa in the early 1990s and turned State witness following his extradition to the US from Kenya in 2017. Ibrahim operated in this country at roughly the same time as Goswami. A former investigator who previously looked into both Ibrahim and Goswami said he suspected the duo worked together smuggling drugs into and through South Africa at some point. They allegedly partnered with local figures who took care of business when they travelled. Also, earlier, in 2016, a chargesheet was filed by India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) against suspected D-Company members' South African links. The charge sheet also mentioned the involvement of Dawood Ibrahim’s associates, Yunus and Saikh, believed to have been involved in riots in Gujarat in 2002.
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September - 11 
The Coimbatore police have said that there are no Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorists present in Tamil Nadu. Police Commissioner, Sumit Sharan said, “We are doing out bit and what the Intelligence Bureau is following up on we are not aware”. Earlier on August 22, central agencies had said that 6 LeT
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The Coimbatore police have said that there are no Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorists present in Tamil Nadu. Police Commissioner, Sumit Sharan said, “We are doing out bit and what the Intelligence Bureau is following up on we are not aware”. Earlier on August 22, central agencies had said that 6 LeT terrorists had entered into Tamil Nadu. Further the Army too had recently said it received inputs about a possible terror attack in South India. The alert comes in the wake of the National Investigation Agency conducting investigations into an Islamic State (IS) module case. So far the NIA has registered 27 cases relating to the IS of which 18 are from South India. Further nearly 155 arrests have been made of which 58 are from South. With the IS trying to spread its ideology, the National Investigation Agency has been conducting training sessions for the police officers of those states affected by the problem.
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September - 16 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 16, filed a chargesheet against four Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operatives, identified as Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Tanveer Ahmed Ganie, Bilal Ahmad Mir and Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat, who were planning terror attacks in different parts of India, reports republicworld.
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 16, filed a chargesheet against four Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) operatives, identified as Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Tanveer Ahmed Ganie, Bilal Ahmad Mir and Muzaffar Ahmad Bhat, who were planning terror attacks in different parts of India, reports republicworld.com. Sajjad Ahmad Khan is a close aide of Pulwama attack mastermind Mudassir Ahmad Khan, who was killed by the Security Forces in March 2019.
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September - 17 
Santosh Singh, who was wanted by National Investigation Agency (NIA) in an arms smuggling case in Purnea District, surrendered before a local court in Arrah (Bhojpur District), Bihar on September 17, reports uniindia.com.
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Santosh Singh, who was wanted by National Investigation Agency (NIA) in an arms smuggling case in Purnea District, surrendered before a local court in Arrah (Bhojpur District), Bihar on September 17, reports uniindia.com.
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September - 19 
A special Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) court on September 19, rejected the bail plea of Areeb Majeed, a Kalyan (Thane District, Maharashtra) resident who was accused of travelling to Syria and joining the banned terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS), reports Hindustan Times. Accor
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A special Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) court on September 19, rejected the bail plea of Areeb Majeed, a Kalyan (Thane District, Maharashtra) resident who was accused of travelling to Syria and joining the banned terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS), reports Hindustan Times. According to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Majeed left for Syria in May 2014 and allegedly participated in a criminal conspiracy to commit terror acts in Iraq and Syria. On his return to India in November 2014, he was arrested at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai (Mumbai District), Maharashtra and handed over to the NIA.
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September - 19 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) revealed that eight persons (hailing from Kasargode, Kerala), identified as Murshid Mohammed TK, Muhammed Marwan, Hafesudheen Theke Koleth, Muhammed Manzad, Shihas KP, Ajmala, Bestin and Shibi KT, among the 23 Keralites who reached Afghanistan to join Islamic Stat
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) revealed that eight persons (hailing from Kasargode, Kerala), identified as Murshid Mohammed TK, Muhammed Marwan, Hafesudheen Theke Koleth, Muhammed Manzad, Shihas KP, Ajmala, Bestin and Shibi KT, among the 23 Keralites who reached Afghanistan to join Islamic State (IS) were killed in air strikes, reports mynation.com on September 20. The sources said that the eight were killed in air strikes carried out by the US-led allied forces in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province since 2016. The NIA cases against these persons will exist till the time their death is officially confirmed.
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September - 21 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at the residence of one M Diwan Mujipeer in Pallivasal North Street, Vellanguli, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, reports oneindia.com on September 22. The case was registered after it had been found that several persons had prepared to form a
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids at the residence of one M Diwan Mujipeer in Pallivasal North Street, Vellanguli, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, reports oneindia.com on September 22. The case was registered after it had been found that several persons had prepared to form a new militant organisation, Ansarulla. During investigation it was revealed that Diwan Mujipeer was associated with the activities of Ansarulla and three mobiles, four SIM cards and one memory card besides a number of incriminating documents were seized from his house. The action comes after July 9, 2019, when the NIA registered cases against 16 accused for allegedly owing allegiance to banned terrorist organisations — Islamic State (IS), Al Qaeda and Students Islamic Movements of India (SIMI). The accused were allegedly trying to set up a terror outfit named Ansarulla. It was also learnt that some of the accused persons and their associates were in touch with the Sri Lankan National Tawheed Jamaat (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim and his accomplices, over social media.
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September - 23 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 23, searched in the hideout of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant Mohammed Jahidul Islam alias Kausar alias Munir Sheikh alias Munna alias Mizan alias Boma Miyan in Syedbasha hills (Krishnagiri District), Tamil Nadu and recovered pipes use
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on September 23, searched in the hideout of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant Mohammed Jahidul Islam alias Kausar alias Munir Sheikh alias Munna alias Mizan alias Boma Miyan in Syedbasha hills (Krishnagiri District), Tamil Nadu and recovered pipes used to test bombs, four batteries, red-coloured wires, match boxes and cellophane tapes. Kausar was the mastermind of the Bodhgaya attack (Gaya District), Bihar of January 19, 2018 and was arrested at Ramanagara (Ramanagara District), Karnataka on August 6, 2018. Later, on September 24, the NIA said a group of JMB terrorists had taken shelter at various hideouts in South India to further the activities of the terror group after the Burdwan blast. A special NIA court last month convicted 19 people, including four Bangladeshi citizens, in the case and all the accused confessed to their crimes before the court. The terrorists, after enquiry, pointed out various hideouts at Atibele, Kadugodi, K.R. Puram, Chikkbanavara and Shikaripalya, Electronic City in Bengaluru (Bangalore Urban District), Karnataka, said the agency.
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September - 24 
Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is on a recruitment spree in West Bengal and intends to send the new hires to various parts of the country to raise funds, reports oneindia.com on September 25. The new recruits have also been told to interact with like-minded people in different parts of the co
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Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is on a recruitment spree in West Bengal and intends to send the new hires to various parts of the country to raise funds, reports oneindia.com on September 25. The new recruits have also been told to interact with like-minded people in different parts of the country and propagate about 'qital' or an armed struggle. Islamic State (IS) has been trying to set up shop in Bangladesh and is a likely ally of JMB. NIA reports that one of the JMB militant, Enamul Mollah chargesheeted in the Bardhaman blast case (2014) is alleged to have set up small modules which would indulge in propaganda war. He had been in constant communication with absconding accused persons Moulana Yousuf and Abul Kalam alias Ibrahim and arranged shelter for them after the Blast. Chargesheeting another accused Habibul Hoque (30), the NIA says that after the Burdwan Blast, he gave shelter to one of the prime absconding accused Moulana Yousuf.
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September - 24 
On September 24, three persons were convicted in Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) and narcotics case by a civil court in Kolkata (Kolkata District), West Bengal, reports Times of India. The three persons were part of a seven-member group who were arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) alon
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On September 24, three persons were convicted in Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) and narcotics case by a civil court in Kolkata (Kolkata District), West Bengal, reports Times of India. The three persons were part of a seven-member group who were arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) along with FICN worth INR 900,000 and 800 gms of opium from Kaliachak (Malda District), West Bengal four years ago. Among the three persons, Sunesh Kumar who was the main culprit was sentenced to six years of imprisonment while the two others Ranjit Chopra and Rajen were given five years each of imprisonment.
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September - 24 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently registered a case to probe the activities of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the southern states after inputs that its members have indulged in robbery to collect funds, reports Hindustan Times on September 25. “JMB, following a major crackdo
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently registered a case to probe the activities of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the southern states after inputs that its members have indulged in robbery to collect funds, reports Hindustan Times on September 25. “JMB, following a major crackdown in Burdwan by us in 2014, in which over 50 of its members were caught in West Bengal and Assam, failed to carry out terror attacks in that region. Kausar, who was instrumental in formation of JMB training camps, procuring explosives in 2014 for making over 100 bombs and planning the Bodhgaya blast in January 2018, had moved to Bengaluru and he was reviving the outfit. But even after his arrest in August last year, it seems somebody is furthering the activities of JMB in South India,” said one unnamed NIA Official. The agency raided hideouts in Atibele, Kadugodi, K R Puram, Chikkbanavara and Shikaripalya, Electronic City in Bengaluru. “Jahidul Islam disclosed during questioning that after the 2014 Burdwan blast, he and his associates went to southern India to escape the agencies on their trail,” said a NIA spokesperson. At least 3-4 incidents of robberies in Bengaluru, linked to JMB operatives, are currently being examined by the central probe agency while the terror outfit’s leader in India – Jahidul Islam alias Kausar—is being interrogated.
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September - 26 
A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Kolkata has sent the main accused in the Kaliachak Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) case, Anarul Islam to 10 years rigorous imprisonment on September 26, reports the weekendleader.com. The court also sentenced five years' rigorous impris
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A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Kolkata has sent the main accused in the Kaliachak Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) case, Anarul Islam to 10 years rigorous imprisonment on September 26, reports the weekendleader.com. The court also sentenced five years' rigorous imprisonment to two accomplices of Anarul, Ripon and Fatima alias Litchi. In January 2016, West Bengal police and personnel of Border Security Force had seized FICN worth INR 800,000 from Anarul who was involved in cross-border trafficking of FICN from Kaliachak Chowranghee in Malda District of West Bengal.
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October - 4 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 4, filed a charge sheet naming seven persons, identified as Shaibu Nihar, Muhammad Mansoor, Mansoor Nittoor Veettil, Shahanad, Fajid Hamsa, Safeer Rahman and Mukhadis, in the Islamic State (IS) Wandoor case before a special court in Kerala, reports dail
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 4, filed a charge sheet naming seven persons, identified as Shaibu Nihar, Muhammad Mansoor, Mansoor Nittoor Veettil, Shahanad, Fajid Hamsa, Safeer Rahman and Mukhadis, in the Islamic State (IS) Wandoor case before a special court in Kerala, reports dailyhunt.com. Of them, Nihar has been arrested while others are absconding. The NIA has revealed that the accused persons, while being in Bahrain and India, travelled or attempted to travel to IS -controlled territory in Syria, for physically joining the proscribed organization and waging war on its behalf against Syria.
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October - 4 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 4, filed a supplementary charge sheet before a Delhi court against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik and four other Kashmiri separatists, including a woman accused Aasiya Andrabi, for allegedly conspiring to wage a war agai
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 4, filed a supplementary charge sheet before a Delhi court against Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Yasin Malik and four other Kashmiri separatists, including a woman accused Aasiya Andrabi, for allegedly conspiring to wage a war against the Central Government by carrying out terrorist and secessionist activities, reports Daily Excelsior. The charge sheet claimed that Pakistan High Commission supported the separatists through transfer of funds via financial conduits to create unrest in the Kashmir valley. The case relates to alleged terror funding in 2017 in the Valley and involves Jama’at-ud-Da’wah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind based in Pakistan. Separatists Shabir Shah, Masarat Alam Bhat and former Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Rashid Engineer have also been named as accused in the supplementary charge sheet, NIA’s Special Public Prosecutor Sidharth Luthra said. The charge sheet was filed before Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Syal, during in-camera proceedings. The court has put up the matter for taking cognisance of the charge sheet on October 23. The NIA stated later in a press release that during the investigation, searches were conducted at nine locations in J&K and 400 electronic devices along with 85 incriminating documents were seized.
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October - 7 
Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah has called a two-day meeting of the chiefs of ATS (anti-terrorism squad) on October 14-15 to work out a new anti-terror framework, reports Tribune India on October 8. National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been assigned to organise the meeting and call chief
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Union Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah has called a two-day meeting of the chiefs of ATS (anti-terrorism squad) on October 14-15 to work out a new anti-terror framework, reports Tribune India on October 8. National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been assigned to organise the meeting and call chiefs of anti-terror squads working under state governments, sources said, adding that they had also been asked to come up with ideas to help build the desired framework. National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval will also be present in the meeting.
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October - 13 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) issued an alert to states and Union Territories over terror attack, reports The Times of India on October 14. The agency said they have shared the names of 125 suspects with other agencies. The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has increased its activities
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) issued an alert to states and Union Territories over terror attack, reports The Times of India on October 14. The agency said they have shared the names of 125 suspects with other agencies. The Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has increased its activities in Bihar, Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka, said NIA DG Yogesh Chander Modi. "We are fully geared up and prepared to meet the challenge of such terror groups with the help of all the states. We are a central investigating agency and are coordinating with other similar agencies at the national as well as international level to tackle terrorism," said Modi.
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October - 14 
Four JMB suspects are allegedly hiding in Odisha, reports the Times of India on October 15. "We are alert to the NIA's information and are keeping a vigilant eye on activities of four JMB suspects in Odisha," an unnamed Police officer said without disclosing more on the suspects. Despite there were
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Four JMB suspects are allegedly hiding in Odisha, reports the Times of India on October 15. "We are alert to the NIA's information and are keeping a vigilant eye on activities of four JMB suspects in Odisha," an unnamed Police officer said without disclosing more on the suspects. Despite there were no terror attacks in the state so far, there had been a few examples of militant groups’ influence. The NIA had arrested a Kendrapada-native, identified as Habibur Rahaman from the national capital Delhi airport in August 2018 for his alleged links with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). On February 17, 2016, police arrested five suspected Students Islamic Movements of India (SIMI) operatives from Rourkela (Sundargarh District). On December 16, 2015, Odisha police arrested Abdul Rehman for his suspected al-Qaeda link from Cuttack district.
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October - 14 
Hindustan Times reports that Most of the 127-odd people arrested by security agencies in India for suspected Islamic State (IS) links were inspired by the speeches of Zakir Naik, National Investigation Agency (NIA) director YC Modi said on October 14.
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Hindustan Times reports that Most of the 127-odd people arrested by security agencies in India for suspected Islamic State (IS) links were inspired by the speeches of Zakir Naik, National Investigation Agency (NIA) director YC Modi said on October 14.
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October - 14 
Jamaat-ul Mujahideen (JMB), had set up 20-22 hideouts in Bengaluru and conducted a trial of rocket launchers in Krishnagiri Hills along the Karnataka border, reports The Times of India on October 15. Moreover NIA Inspector General Alok Mittal said NIA had registered 28 cases of Indian youths influen
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Jamaat-ul Mujahideen (JMB), had set up 20-22 hideouts in Bengaluru and conducted a trial of rocket launchers in Krishnagiri Hills along the Karnataka border, reports The Times of India on October 15. Moreover NIA Inspector General Alok Mittal said NIA had registered 28 cases of Indian youths influenced by Islamic State (IS) since 2014 and arrested as many as 127 people from across 14 states. Tamil Nadu tops the list with 33 arrests. Earlier SATP reported that JMB has increased its activities in Bihar, Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka and several arrested persons belonging to IS had confessed to be radicalised by hate speeches of Zakir Naik.
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October - 14 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director General (DG) YC Modi on October 14 stated that Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have intensified its activities in Assam, Odisha and Jharkhand, reports Assam Tribune. The Director stated that the terror group has been attempting to expand its operati
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director General (DG) YC Modi on October 14 stated that Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have intensified its activities in Assam, Odisha and Jharkhand, reports Assam Tribune. The Director stated that the terror group has been attempting to expand its operations across India and a list of 125 suspects has been shared with different states. He stated that ‘’ In NIA’s pan-India probe, we got to know that JMB is not only active in Assam, Odisha and Jharkhand but also spreading their activities in other states such as Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra”. Referring to the Manipur missing arms case, in which 56 9-mm pistols were stolen from the armoury of the Manipur Police with 58 loaded magazines, Modi said the weapons were provided to the insurgents in 2016, adds Assam Tribune. The NIA Director stated that “After taking over the investigation of the case from the state police in June 2018, NIA unearthed the major conspiracy behind the missing arms. At least 12 people, including a sitting Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), were arrested in the case and 20 weapons have been recovered. Further investigation is on to recover the other weapons”.
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October - 14 
NIA Inspector General Alok Mittal revealed how a National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) (faction not specified) was paid about INR 21.5 Million for his involvement in weapons haul in February 2019, reports News 18. Bihar Police had recovered Under Barrel Grenade Launchers (UBGL), AK-47 assaul
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NIA Inspector General Alok Mittal revealed how a National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) (faction not specified) was paid about INR 21.5 Million for his involvement in weapons haul in February 2019, reports News 18. Bihar Police had recovered Under Barrel Grenade Launchers (UBGL), AK-47 assault rifles and live cartridges in Purnia District in Bihar. He stated that “It was an organised racket. Weapons from Myanmar reached NSCN cadres first and then to Bihar’s organized criminals or arms trafficking gangs who later supplied to Left Wing Extremist (LWE) groups. On interrogation of an NSCN cadre, it was found that funds were transferred through banking channels.”
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October - 14 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on october 14 said it has registered a total of 287 cases till September end and the highest number of the cases, 110, are related to jihadi terrorism, reports India Tribune . Of the other 177 cases, the NIA said 50 are related to insurgency in the northeast r
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on october 14 said it has registered a total of 287 cases till September end and the highest number of the cases, 110, are related to jihadi terrorism, reports India Tribune . Of the other 177 cases, the NIA said 50 are related to insurgency in the northeast region, 48 of Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), 28 of left-wing extremism or Maoism, 15 related to Khalistan, one of human trafficking and the remaining 35 are miscellaneous matters. Of the 110 jihadi terrorism cases, 32 are from Jammu and Kashmir, 22 have relation to Islamic State while 50 are in “others” category, NIA data said. “There were two cases in Punjab in September-October last year in which Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind cadre was involved. Weapons and explosives were provided to some students in a Engineering College in Jalandhar. Attack was made at a police station. In that case we have arrested several accused and have filed charge sheet.” NIA official said. The NIA had also registered a case related to Dukhtaran-e-Millat, a Kashmir-based Islamist organization of women which has been indulge in anti-India activities, said the officer.
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October - 15 
After National Investigation Agency (NIA) reported that Bengaluru (Bangalore Urban District), Karnataka was the main hub of the banned terrorist organisation Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) post the Burdwan blast in 2014, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced that the city will soon have an
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After National Investigation Agency (NIA) reported that Bengaluru (Bangalore Urban District), Karnataka was the main hub of the banned terrorist organisation Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) post the Burdwan blast in 2014, Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced that the city will soon have an anti-terrorist squad (ATS) to deal with any kind of exigency, reports New Indian Express on October 16. There have been targeted attacks by various proscribed terrorist organisations in Bengaluru since 2000. A church in JJ Nagar was blown up by the banned terrorist organisation Deendar Anjuman followed by the IISc attack by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in December 2005, serial blasts in 2008, Chinnaswamy Stadium blast in 2010, Al Ummah bomb explosion at BJP office in Malleswaram in 2013 and the 2014 explosion on Church Street by a Students Islamic Movements of India (SIMI) member. The decision to set up the ATS was made following the arrest of a number of Jamat-e-Mujahiddin Bangladesh (JMB) cadres in and around Bengaluru, from whom explosive devices and many other incriminating materials were found in the last one year, the NIA had said.
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October - 15 
Another report of The Times of India on October 15 says NIA chief's alert on JMB "intensifying" its activities in Odisha assumes significance as the state has a large population of Bangladeshi migrants settled mostly in coastal Kendrapada District. In March 2015, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
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Another report of The Times of India on October 15 says NIA chief's alert on JMB "intensifying" its activities in Odisha assumes significance as the state has a large population of Bangladeshi migrants settled mostly in coastal Kendrapada District. In March 2015, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had informed the Assembly that 3,987 infiltrators lived in the state and that all of them were Bangladeshis. Citing a survey, he had said the largest number of Bangladeshi infiltrators were found living in Kendrapara District (1,649), followed by 1,112 in Jagatsinghpur District. Recently, the Union ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) had forwarded to the Registrar General of India a suggestion from Mohit Aggarwal, the Orissa high court's amicus curiae in a wetland protection case, seeking the creation of a National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Kendrapada District.
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October - 18 
The Members of an Islamist terrorist organisation operating out of Bangladesh have infiltrated Karnataka disguised as immigrants and are lodged in Bengaluru (Bangalore Urban District), Mysore and the coastal areas, Minister for Home Affairs Basavaraj Bommai said on October 18, reports The Times of I
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The Members of an Islamist terrorist organisation operating out of Bangladesh have infiltrated Karnataka disguised as immigrants and are lodged in Bengaluru (Bangalore Urban District), Mysore and the coastal areas, Minister for Home Affairs Basavaraj Bommai said on October 18, reports The Times of India. “The NIA has informed us that Bangladeshi mujahideen have sneaked into Karnataka along with Bangladeshi immigrants. Their movements are been tracked,” he said.
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October - 24 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 24 filed a supplementary chargesheet against alleged Islamic State (IS) militant Riyas Aboobacker alias Riyas A in the Kasaragod case before a Special Court at Ernakulam District, Kerala, reports Times Now. Riyas was arrested on 28 April, 2019 from
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 24 filed a supplementary chargesheet against alleged Islamic State (IS) militant Riyas Aboobacker alias Riyas A in the Kasaragod case before a Special Court at Ernakulam District, Kerala, reports Times Now. Riyas was arrested on 28 April, 2019 from Palakkad District, Kerala for allegedly conspiring to commit a terrorist act in the state. The probe by NIA revealed that a conspiracy was hatched from mid-2015 onwards by 14 people from Kasaragod District, Kerala to join and support IS in Afghanistan and Syria. They joined the terror outfit around May or July 2016. In April, 2019 the NIA learnt that Aboobacker and his three associates were radicalised through social media platforms by Abdul Rashid Abdulla and Ashfak Majeed. The investigation found out that Aboobacker, from July 2018, had contacted his associates and shared the ideology of the ISIS. In October, 2019 he organised conspiracy meetings at Kochi (Ernakulam District) where he had decided to carry out suicide attacks for furthering the terror outfit's activities in India.
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October - 27 
Islamic State (IS), had also tried to get a foothold in India first through Uttar Pradesh in 2016-17, reported Economic Times on. In May 2016 a purported IS video showed jihadists supposedly from India threatening to "return" to "avenge killing of Muslims in India". Two Indian Mujahideen (IM) operat
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Islamic State (IS), had also tried to get a foothold in India first through Uttar Pradesh in 2016-17, reported Economic Times on. In May 2016 a purported IS video showed jihadists supposedly from India threatening to "return" to "avenge killing of Muslims in India". Two Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives, Abu Rashid Ahmad and Mohammad 'Bada' Sajid from Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh District were identified amongst those featured in this video. The release of this video led the then Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) to intervene in the matter, announcing that the Centre was taking all steps to tackle the issue. The cause of concern for the Uttar Pradesh Police stemmed from arrest of two UP youths, Shakir and Rizwan, who were in touch with the IS through its social media network. Shakir was arrested by the Delhi Police on May 4, 2016 from Deoband in Saharanapur District for his alleged links with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) while Rizwan was held by the Mumbai Police from Kushinagar District in Uttar Pradesh on January 23, 2016. In March, 2017, investigators unearthed a suspected IS terror module operating in India. Ghaus Mohammed Khan, an ex-Indian Air Force officer, was the leader of the group planning attacks in the country. The Uttar Pradesh ATS on March 7, 2017 managed to kill a terrorist hiding inside a house in Thakurganj area of Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh ATS Inspector General Aseem Arun revealed that the neutralised terrorist was a member of the IS of Khorasan module. Terror suspects Atif and Danish were arrested in Lucknow by the NIA in connection with the Lucknow terror operation. The NIA then registered a First Information Report (FIR) in the IS- inspired cases in the Madhya Pradesh and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) terror operations.
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October - 27 
Tamil Nadu tops the list of Indian states where anti-terror agencies have unearthed modules of Islamic State (IS) over a period of five years since 2014, reports Mumbai Mirror on October 28. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed to have arrested 127 IS sympathisers from across India si
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Tamil Nadu tops the list of Indian states where anti-terror agencies have unearthed modules of Islamic State (IS) over a period of five years since 2014, reports Mumbai Mirror on October 28. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed to have arrested 127 IS sympathisers from across India since 2014 and the highest number of 33 were from Tamil Nadu. Uttar Pradesh was on second position from where 19 IS sympathisers were arrested, followed by 17 from Kerala, 14 from Telangana, 12 from Maharashtra, eight from Karnataka, seven from Delhi, four each from Uttarakhand and West Bengal and three from Jammu and Kashmir. The NIA arrested two persons each from Rajasthan and Gujarat and one each from Bihar and Madhya Pradesh.
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October - 30 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi on October 30 took two persons, Mohammed Azaruddin and Sheikh Hidayathullah, alleged have links with those behind the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, into four days’ custody, reports thenewsminute.com. With the aid of experts from the Centre for D
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi on October 30 took two persons, Mohammed Azaruddin and Sheikh Hidayathullah, alleged have links with those behind the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, into four days’ custody, reports thenewsminute.com. With the aid of experts from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, NIA had examined the seized mobile phones and electronic gadgets of the accused persons which establish the alleged links the accused persons have with those involved in the Easter blasts. Sheik Hidayathullah (38) and Mohammed Azaruddin (32) were arrested in June from Coimbatore district by the NIA. Sheikh Hidayathullah was arrested for his alleged association with Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). Mohammed Azaruddin was arrested for running a Facebook page called ‘KhilafahGFX’ through which he had allegedly been propagating Islamic State (IS) ideology.
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October - 31 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 31 carried out searches at two locations at Kovai (Coimbatore District) beside one each in Elayangudi (Sivaganga District), Trichy (Tiruchirappalli District), Kayalpattinam (Thoothukudi District) and Nagapattinam (Nagapattinam District) in Tamil Nad
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 31 carried out searches at two locations at Kovai (Coimbatore District) beside one each in Elayangudi (Sivaganga District), Trichy (Tiruchirappalli District), Kayalpattinam (Thoothukudi District) and Nagapattinam (Nagapattinam District) in Tamil Nadu in connection with the alleged plot by an Islamic State (IS)-inspired group to murder leaders of Hindu organisations, reports Outlook India. NIA was probing into the alleged conspiracy to kill Hindu Makkal Katchi leader Arjun Sampath and his son Omkar by the IS-inspired groups. In September, 2018 a Special Investigation Unit of the Coimbatore Police had foiled a plot by seven members of an IS-inspired Islamic group in Tamil Nadu to murder Sampath, Hindu Munnani leader Mookambikai Mani and Sakthi Sena leader Anbu Mari.
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November - 10 
On November 10, RK Meghen (75), the former ‘chairman’ of Manipur-based insurgent outfit United National Liberation Front (UNLF), was taken to Delhi by National Investigating Agency (NIA) officials, Megan’s lawyer M Gunedhor Singh informed, reports News 18. According to Singh, the Union Ministry of
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On November 10, RK Meghen (75), the former ‘chairman’ of Manipur-based insurgent outfit United National Liberation Front (UNLF), was taken to Delhi by National Investigating Agency (NIA) officials, Megan’s lawyer M Gunedhor Singh informed, reports News 18. According to Singh, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs had urged the former UNLF supremo not to return to Manipur in view of the "volatile situation in the state".
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November - 13 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on November 13, in its charge sheet informed Patiala House Court of Delhi, that Al-Qaeda tried to establish a base in Delhi through its operative Samiun Rahman alias Hamdan, who was arrested in 2017 by the Delhi Police, reports sentinalassam.com. The Britain-b
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on November 13, in its charge sheet informed Patiala House Court of Delhi, that Al-Qaeda tried to establish a base in Delhi through its operative Samiun Rahman alias Hamdan, who was arrested in 2017 by the Delhi Police, reports sentinalassam.com. The Britain-based Rahman had planned to fight for the Rohingya cause in Myanmar and entered India illegally via Beenapole border in West Bengal from Bangladesh, the NIA said in its charge sheet filed under the Arms Act, Foreigners Act, and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). The NIA said that Rahman a resident of Port Pool Lane in London, was staying in India on a fake identity of Shumon Haq alias Raju Bhai. The fake ID proof mentions his residential address as House No.88, Mullabadi post office, Dhantola Thakurganj, Kishanganj, Bihar. “At the time of his arrest, a pistol and four rounds of ammunition were seized from Rahman. Incriminating material showing his allegiance to the Al-Qaeda and regarding his chat with the associates of the terror organisation was recovered from his laptop and mobile phone,” said the NIA.
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November - 15 
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on November 15, sentenced five accused in the Khagragarh (in Bardhaman District of West Bengal) blast case of October 2, 2014, to varying terms from five years to six years in jail after convicting them for conspiracy and waging war against the co
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A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court on November 15, sentenced five accused in the Khagragarh (in Bardhaman District of West Bengal) blast case of October 2, 2014, to varying terms from five years to six years in jail after convicting them for conspiracy and waging war against the country and under various provisions of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), reports outlookindia.com. Links with terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were found in the blast. Siddhartha Kanjilal, the chief judge at City Sessions Court who was presiding over the special NIA court, sentenced Enamul Haq and Habibur Rahaman to five years'' rigorous imprisonment. The court sentenced Habibur Sheikh, Faizul Rahaman and Burhan Sheikh to six years'' rigorous imprisonment, NIA lawyer Shyamal Ghosh said. Judge Kanjilal also slapped a fine of INR 20,000 on each of the five convicts. Failure to pay the fine would invite an additional year in jail for them.
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November - 25 
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kolkata (West Bengal) on November 25, convicted and sentenced eight people for running a Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) smuggling racket across the India-Bangladesh border from West Bengal, reports outlookindia.com. An NIA spokesperson in Delh
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A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kolkata (West Bengal) on November 25, convicted and sentenced eight people for running a Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) smuggling racket across the India-Bangladesh border from West Bengal, reports outlookindia.com. An NIA spokesperson in Delhi, in a statement, said that Barkat Ali, 24, the kingpin of the racket, was sentenced to six years in jail and a fine of INR 10,000 slapped on him. The other convicts -- Dalim, 24, Anikul, 42, Salim, 33, Rahim, 37, Tahir, 34, Montu, 34, and Biyol, 35 -- have been sentenced to five years in jail along with INR 10,000 fine each, the spokesperson said, adding that all the accused have been convicted under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Unlawful (Activities) Prevention Act (UAPA). All the eight accused pleaded guilty during the trial, the spokesperson said. The crime came to light following the seizure of fake currency of face value worth INR 64,00,000 from Ali by the Border Security Force (BSF) in West Bengal's Malda District that borders Bangladesh in 2015.
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November - 25 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi on November 25, found six people, arrested in connection with a 2016 Islamic State (IS) terror plot case, guilty of conspiring to carry out strikes across Kerala and neighbouring states, reports telegraphindia.com. Those convicted are Manseed Mehmoo
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi on November 25, found six people, arrested in connection with a 2016 Islamic State (IS) terror plot case, guilty of conspiring to carry out strikes across Kerala and neighbouring states, reports telegraphindia.com. Those convicted are Manseed Mehmood, Swalih Mohammed, Rashid Ali, Ramshad N. K., Safvan and Moinuddin. Special Judge P. Krishnakumar, however, acquitted Jasim N. K. The court said they had not joined the IS but made it clear that they were qualified to be called as members of a terror gang. The quantum of punishment will be pronounced on November 27, it said. They have been found guilty under various sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), including offences relating to membership of a terrorist organisation and support given to a terrorist organisation. During the hearing on quantum of punishment, the prosecution argued that they should be awarded life imprisonment as they did not show any remorse or repentance for their act.
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November - 27 
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi in Ernakulam District of Kerala, on November 27, awarded 14-year rigorous imprisonment to a person arrested in connection with a conspiracy to carry out terror strikes across Kerala and neighbouring States in 2016, reports Sify News. The C
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A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Kochi in Ernakulam District of Kerala, on November 27, awarded 14-year rigorous imprisonment to a person arrested in connection with a conspiracy to carry out terror strikes across Kerala and neighbouring States in 2016, reports Sify News. The Court found guilty six persons including prime accused Manseed Mehmood under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) including offences relating to conspiracy and membership of a terrorist organisation and support given to a terrorist organisation. Meanwhile, one accused in the case, identified as Jasim N K was acquitted. All the six persons were arrested by the NIA in the Kanakamala Islamic State (IS) terror plot case. The judge awarded 10 years rigorous imprisonment to second accused Swalih Mohammed and seven years rigorous imprisonment to third accused Rashid Ali in the case. While fourth accused N K Ramshad and eighth accused Moinuddin were awarded three years RI, fifth accused Safvan was awarded eight years rigorous imprisonment. The court also slapped a fine of varying amounts on each of the convicts. The NIA had busted the IS module from Kanakamala in Kannur District in October 2016 when they were holding a meeting to plan terror attacks against prominent persons, including judges, Police officers and politicians, and foreign tourists.
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November - 27 
Sources in the government agencies have stated that Pakistani terrorists have managed to enter India through an alternate route via Nepal even after security forces are on high alert in Line of Control (Jammu and Kashmir), newslivetv.com reports on November 28. Seven terrorists from groups including
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Sources in the government agencies have stated that Pakistani terrorists have managed to enter India through an alternate route via Nepal even after security forces are on high alert in Line of Control (Jammu and Kashmir), newslivetv.com reports on November 28. Seven terrorists from groups including the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) have used this route to enter India. National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the intelligence department have recently received this input. According to the inputs the terrorists are believed to be camping in areas of Gorakhpur and Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. It is to be noted that five among the seven terrorists have been identified by the intelligence department as Mohammad Yakub, Abu Hamza, Mohammad Shahbaz, Nisar Ahmed, and Mohammed Kuyami Choudhury.
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December - 4 
Global cooperation is a “necessity” for tackling terrorism and radicalisation and every country should share their experiences in order to keep a step ahead of techniques adopted by terror outfits, National Investigation Agency (NIA) chief Y C Modi stated on December 4, at the concluding day of a tw
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Global cooperation is a “necessity” for tackling terrorism and radicalisation and every country should share their experiences in order to keep a step ahead of techniques adopted by terror outfits, National Investigation Agency (NIA) chief Y C Modi stated on December 4, at the concluding day of a two-day (December 3-4) conference — “Investigating ISIS networks” — organised by the European Union (EU) and the NIA held in New Delhi, reports Daily Excelsior. Modi said there were no boundaries for terrorism which makes it imperative for global cooperation to fight the menace.
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December - 10 
The Interpol has issued a Blue notice against five youths -- four Keralites and one Karnataka native -- who are suspected to have joined terror groups, Jabhat al-Nusra (linked with al Qaeda) and Jund al-Aqsa (splinter group of Jabhat al-Nusra), in Syria, New Indian Express reports on December 11. Th
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The Interpol has issued a Blue notice against five youths -- four Keralites and one Karnataka native -- who are suspected to have joined terror groups, Jabhat al-Nusra (linked with al Qaeda) and Jund al-Aqsa (splinter group of Jabhat al-Nusra), in Syria, New Indian Express reports on December 11. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has also initiated steps to attach the properties of the five accused persons. In January 2019, the NIA found that a group of Keralites working in Qatar joined the rebel terror groups in Syria, which is fighting the forces in the country. The accused persons were identified as Hashir Uchummel Mohammed from North Paravoor; Siddique alias Sidhikul Akbar from Malappuram; Muhammad Irfan of Vadakkumbad near Thalassery; Thahir Mohammed from Shimoga in Karnataka, and Sultan Abdulla from Mukkom, Kozhikode. They were allegedly radicalised in Qatar. The NIA had earlier sought the help of Interpol to track down these persons. “Interpol has issued with a Blue notice against these persons to get details about them from Syria. We suspect that some of them have died by now. However, there is no confirmation in this regard. A court in Kochi has also issued non-bailable arrest warrants against these persons,” sources in Ministry of Home Affairs said.
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December - 12 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has revealed that Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has arranged 20-22 hideouts in Bangalore from 2014 to 2018 and tried to unfold its bases in South India, sunriseread.com reports on December 13. Also, JMB had additionally performed a trial of rocket laun
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has revealed that Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has arranged 20-22 hideouts in Bangalore from 2014 to 2018 and tried to unfold its bases in South India, sunriseread.com reports on December 13. Also, JMB had additionally performed a trial of rocket launchers at Krishnagiri hills alongside the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border. It was revealed that JMB has elevated exercise in Bihar, Maharashtra, Kerala and Karnataka and is trying to expand the organisation into extra areas. A listing of 125 suspects has additionally been launched by the NIA.
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on December 23 conducted searches in Delhi and Dimapur in Nagaland at the houses of Alemla Jamir, wife of a National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) leader reports India Today. Four bullet proof jackets, 28 rounds of 7.62 and 9MM and 12 bore ro
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) on December 23 conducted searches in Delhi and Dimapur in Nagaland at the houses of Alemla Jamir, wife of a National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM) leader reports India Today. Four bullet proof jackets, 28 rounds of 7.62 and 9MM and 12 bore rounds as well as spy cameras and pistol holsters and magazine puches were recovered from her house. She is the wife of Pungting Shirmrang alias James Jamir who is a member of NSCN-IM steering committee. Earlier on December 20, NIA had re-registered a case under relevant provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) for terror financing of NSCN (IM). Alemla is alleged to be working for NSCN (IM) and was detained at New Delhi airport on December 17 with INR 7.2 Million.
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