The National Investigation Agency or NIA on Wednesday went to town claiming that it had busted an ISIS module in India after the federal agency conducted raids across Delhi and Uttar Pradesh and arrested 10 people. These 10 people, all Muslims, are accused of planning to attack crowded places and political personalities.
The arrested men are identified as Mufti Mohammed Suhail alias Hazrath, Anas Yunus, Rashid Zafar Raq alias Zafar, Saeed alias Sayeed, Saeed's brother Raees Ahmad, Zubair Malik, Saqib Iftekar, Mohammed Irshad and Mohammed Azam.
The agency later flaunted the so-called weapons and explosives that it had recovered from the raids. The 'recovered' weapons included home-made revolvers also known as desi katta, dozens of bullets and low-intensity bombs that looked more like firecrackers, used in Diwali. The NIA also recovered several A4 sized pages of ISIS logo printed on papers. These printouts can be taken with access to Google and a printer.
The NIA even coined a name of an organization, Harkat ul Harb e Islam, which it claimed was planning to wage a war against India with desi Katta and firecrackers. Senior government officials familiar with the functioning of the NIA said that Wednesday's raids had taken place at the behest of National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.
