NEW DELHI: The NIA on Thursday raided five places in Uttar Pradesh and two in Punjab in its probe into a new Islamic State (IS)-inspired module Harkat-ul-Harb-e-Islam and detained four men, officials said. The National Investigation Agency teams launched simultaneous searches at seven locations, including Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur, Bulandshahr, Meerut, Hapur and Amroha and Punjab’s Ludhiana, early in the day, a senior NIA official told IANS.
One of those arrested is a Maulvi from Ludhiana. The fresh searches came five days after the counter-terror probe agency arrested a suspect from Hapur for being affiliated with the global terror outfit. NIA officials on Thursday detained 50-year-old Mohammad Habib, a resident of Kaloli village in Bulandshahr district. The general store owner has spent over 25 years in Saudi Arabia and was likely to be brought to the NIA office in Delhi for questioning, according to an informed source.
