The agency conducted searches at 43 locations in Tamil Nadu and one in Kerala; It said that Mubeen, who was killed in the Coimbatore blasts, conspired to cause extensive damage to the monuments of a particular faith.
The agency conducted searches at 43 locations in Tamil Nadu and one in Kerala; It said that Mubeen, who was killed in the Coimbatore blasts, conspired to cause extensive damage to the monuments of a particular faith.
The National Investigation Agency said on 10 November: dead suspect jamisha mubeen In the Coimbatore bombings case, suicide attacks were planned to cause extensive damage to symbols and monuments of a particular religious faith.
The agency said that preliminary investigation revealed that Mubeen had Bayath‘ or oath To serve the Islamic State (IS)Was planning to carry out suicide attacks to strike terror among a particular section of the community.
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The six accused persons arrested so far in this case have used Mubeen’s name for the purchase of various chemicals and other materials for the manufacture of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), including a vehicle-borne IED, from an online shopping platform for committing terrorist acts. had allegedly conspired together. Told.
statewide searches
NIA on Thursday simultaneous search In the follow-up to the Coimbatore bomb blast case, at several places across Tamil Nadu and at one place in Kerala.
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Special teams of the central agency began searches with the backup of local police on the premises of those they suspected to be IS activists or sympathizers.
Sources said the investigators are taking action on the basis of inputs received from intelligence agencies and the suspects arrested in the car blast case.
NIA sources said searches were conducted at 43 locations in Chennai, Coimbatore, Tiruvallur, Tiruppur, Nilgiris, Chengalpattu, Kancheepuram and Nagapattinam and Palakkad in Kerala.
Sources said the searches pertain to the case in which a bomb exploded in a car laden with explosives in front of Kottai Easwaran temple in Coimbatore district on October 23, 2022.
During the searches, digital devices and incriminating documents were seized from the houses of the suspects.
The NIA also conducted searches at Kollangode near Palakkad. The team raided Sheikh Mustafa’s house in Muthalamada’s Chhappakkar. Mustafa is living in Coimbatore. The team confiscated phones and other digital devices from the house. The search lasted for about three hours.
Mustafa Rias is a relative of Abubakar, who was arrested in 2019 for alleged links with IS. NIA sources said they are probing Mustafa’s possible links with the Coimbatore and Sri Lanka blasts.