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Searches were conducted astatine Padgha-Borivali portion adjacent Mumbai and Ratnagiri successful Maharashtra, Delhi, Kolkata, and Uttar Pradesh
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) searched astir 40 locations crossed aggregate States successful transportation with a lawsuit involving an ISIS-linked module nether probed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The searches covered the premises of the accused, their adjacent associates and household members, and entities with fiscal links oregon suspicious monetary transactions with them. They included the Padgha-Borivali portion adjacent Mumbai and Ratnagiri successful Maharashtra, Delhi, Kolkata, and Uttar Pradesh.
The complaint sheets filed by the NIA successful its case, based connected which the ED is investigating the alleged money-laundering angle, revealed that the accused were portion of a “highly radicalised ISIS-linked module” and were engaged successful recruitment, training, procurement of weapons and explosives, and raising funds to prolong the group’s operations.
“Intelligence inputs were besides received from ATS (Anti-Terror Squad), Mumbai, revealing amerciable cutting, smuggling, and merchantability of khair (Kaith) wood, with the proceeds suspected to beryllium utilized for supporting extremist activities,” said an official. In October 2024, the ATS had arrested 5 radical for alleged engagement successful khair wood smuggling with panic links.
The NIA lawsuit was against Saquib Nachan, the erstwhile nationalist wide caput of the banned outfit Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). He was accused of being the main conspirator and had allegedly administered “pledge and allegiance to ISIS” to the younker successful his community. The accused had besides established 1 “Al Sham”-like country successful Padgha colony (Maharasthra), wherever sharia instrumentality was enforced. While successful judicial custody, helium died successful a Delhi infirmary connected June 28, 2025, aft suffering a encephalon haemorrhage.
The lawsuit was earlier probed by the Delhi Police Special Cell, which arrested 3 persons who were allegedly successful interaction with Saquib Nachan and a overseas ISIS handler, Sultan Sikandar. On their direction, the 3 were collecting materials for making explosives.
On December 9, 2023, the NIA had raided 42 locations successful Pune & Padgha-Borivali (including surrounding locations), pursuing which 15 persons were arrested. Of them, arsenic alleged, 8 were earlier connected to SIMI. “Their main nonsubjective was to found Khilafat and enactment of the State of Islam which volition regularisation by Shariya,” arsenic per the authorities records.
The seized articles included a firearm, an improvised explosive device, powder-like worldly suspected to beryllium explosive substances, alloy pellets, matchstick box, robust pipes, fuse, brownish powder, batteries, a watch, wires, an electrical weighing instrumentality and a remote.
