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13 suspected ISIS sympathisers arrested : Home Ministry
New Delhi, Jan 23 (IBNS) Thirteen of the 14 suspected ISIS sympathisers, who were detained by the National Investigation Agency across the country on Friday,have been arrested, the Home Ministry said on Saturday.
Five of them had been arrested on Friday as part of NIA's nationwide anti-terror drive ahead of Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
The arrests were made following simultaneous searches and raids at 12 locations across six cities - Bengaluru, Tumkur and Mangalore in Karnataka, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Lucknow.
Abu Anas, one of the men who was detained in Hyderabad on Friday, works with a software company. The 25-year-old youth was on leave for a month, citing poor health, according to investigators.
Two kilograms of ammonium nitrate and certain incriminating articles including jihadi literature and videos and material for preparation of bombs were recovered from the suspects.
While some of those arrested are students, others are employees in various companies.
"These individuals were planning and making efforts to establish a channel of procurement of explosives/weapons, identify locations to organize training camps including training of firearms, motivate new recruits to target police officers, foreigners in India and to carry out terrorist activities in various parts of India," the NIA said in a statement on Friday.
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