Ghazwa-e-Hind terror probe: NIA raids four places in Nagpur | Nagpur News – Times of India

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NAGPUR: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), investigating WhatsApp group Ghazwa-e-Hind terror module busted in Bihar last year, carried out searches at eight locations across the country, including four places in the city and rural area on Thursday.
The searches, conducted with the help Nagpur police, were carried out at two places in Satranjipura and one in Gawlipura in the city and at one place in Mandhal in Kuhi tehsil in Nagpur district.
Apart from Nagpur, searches were also carried out in Gwalior city (Madhya Pradesh), and Valsad, Surat and Botad districts of Gujarat.
The searches in Nagpur were carried out at the residence of one Farhan Ali Liyaquat Ali in Gawlipura, Akhtar Raza Mohd Mukhtar Rain and Abdul Muktadeer Abdul Mustafa Rizwan in Satranjipura and another youth, identified as Mohd Jameel Quereshi, at Mandhal. The action, which kicked off at around 4am, was wrapped up by the teams by around 11am.
It’s learnt that these youths were members of the Ghazwa-e-Hind WhatsApp group, created by a Pakistani national identified as Zain, and had been chatting with other members and admin on issues such as “roping in Muslim youths for waging war against non-Islamic governments and capturing power through jihad”.
NIA had also registered a case in July last year after an FIR at Phulwari Sharif police station registered by Bihar police against operatives of Popular Front of India (PFI). Some PFI activists were arrested then and their houses searched. After mobile phones of the suspects were scanned, the investigation agencies had come across the WhatsApp group, being controlled from Pakistan.
Maghroob Ahmad Danish, a native of Phulwari Sharif, was one of the admins of the group in which youngsters from Pakistan, India, Yemen and other countries were added allegedly to convert them into sleeper cells for carrying out terrorist activities. A separate WhatsApp group for Bangladesh (Ghazwa-e-Hind BD) was also created. Using the group, the members were being radicalised.
The NIA had earlier submitted charge sheet in January this year. On March 15, the agency had carried out sweeping searches at 15 locations in J&K, sources said.
Family members of Muktadeer confirmed the search by NIA. “My brother had left for Santra Market where he sells fruits when the NIA team reached our residence at around 4am. They asked us to summon him,” said Muktadeer’s younger brother.
Neighbours termed Muktadeer as a religious person. “We have heard he was chatting with someone from Pakistan regarding namaz (prayer). But can this be a crime?” asked a neighbour.
Sources said laptops, mobile phones and other electronic gadgets were seized from the four youths who were grilled by the NIA officials, assisted by city police with DCP (detection) Mummakka Sudarshan coordinating the bandobast under the supervision of CP Amitesh Kumar.
The youths have been asked to report before deputy inspector general Jyoti Priya in Lucknow on April 6, said sources. “Many people initially speculated that the searches were fallout of an offence registered after a skirmish between rival groups in a mosque committee,” Satranjipura locals told this reporter.

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