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Around 60 locations across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala are being searched by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a massive crackdown on suspects having links with the banned terror outfit ISIS, sources have said.<\/p>\n
Searches are being carried out in connection with last year’s blasts in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore and Karnataka’s Mangaluru, they said.<\/p>\n
The blast in Coimbatore killed Jameza Mubin – who was questioned by the central anti-terror agency over alleged ISIS links in 2019, police said.<\/p>\n
Mubin was driving a car with two open cylinders and one of them exploded last year in October, police said. A search of his house later led to the recovery of “low-intensive explosive material”.<\/p>\n
Those seemed to be meant for “future plans”, Tamil Nadu police chief C Sylendra Babu had said.<\/p>\n
In December, NIA had taken over the November 19 Mangaluru auto-rickshaw blast that injured two people – including the prime suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mohammad Shareeq, who allegedly had tried to make a bomb in September too, was carrying a low-intensity Improvised Explosive device or IED when it exploded. A burnt pressure cooker fitted with batteries was found inside the auto<\/p>\n
Karnataka police had said that the blast was not accidental but an “act of terror with the intention to cause serious damage.”<\/p>\n
A group that calls itself ‘Islamic Resistance Council’ had claimed the responsibility of the auto-rickshaw blast.<\/p>\n
Typed in English and printed with Shareeq’s photo, the letter said he “attempted to attack the Hindutva Temple in Kadri, a bastion of the Saffron terrorists in Mangalore”.<\/p>\n
Intelligence sources say Shareeq had visited forest areas in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala in November with the intention to establish the ISIS terror module in South India.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n