National Investigation Agency's (NIA) raid at seven locations in Coimbatore in connection with ISIS module case continued on Thursday morning. Yesterday, NIA had begun the raids at different locations and had arrested four persons for interrogation. Based on the cross-examination of the arrested individuals, the local police is also conducting an inquiry at three more locations in the city. The terror crime investigators also arrested Mohammed Azarudeen, the alleged mastermind of ISIS Tamil Nadu module who was a Facebook friend of Sri Lankan suicide bomber Zahran Hashim. "Azarudeen was the leader of the module and was maintaining a Facebook page named "KhilafahGFX", through which he had been propagating the ideology of ISIS/ Daish," said the agency.

Source: dna June 13, 2019 07:41 UTC