The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday raided the Thane house of arrested accused Shamil Saquib Nachan in the Pune ISIS module case and seized a host of incriminating material exposing the terrorist organisation’s conspiracy to disrupt peace and communal harmony in the country.

The searches at the  Padgha, Thane house of Nachan, a member of an ISIS Sleeper Cell, yielded several mobile phones, hard disks and some handwritten documents which are being examined and analysed, the NIA said.

Shamil was arrested earlier for participating in Bomb (IED) Assembly and Training Workshops and also in the fabrication and testing of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

“Shamil had been working with five other accused-Zulfikar Ali Barodawala, Mohammed Imran Khan, Mohammed Yunus Saki, Simab Nasiruddin Kazi and Abdul Kadir Pathan along with some other suspects, as part of a bigger conspiracy to trigger violence across various parts of the country by fabricating and exploding the IEDs,” the agency said. Imran and Yunus, both members of the ‘Sufa terrorist gang’, who were absconding and were declared ‘most wanted’ by the NIA, were recently arrested by the Pune police in a case relating to the recovery of explosives from a car in Rajasthan in April 2022.

NIA investigations in the Pune ISIS module case have revealed that Shamil and the other members of an ISIS Sleeper Cell had assembled IEDs at a house in Kondhwa, Pune, where they had also organised and participated in a bomb (IED) assembly and training workshops last year. They had even carried out a controlled explosion at this location to test an IED fabricated by them.

 “The conspiracy was aimed at committing terrorist acts with aim to disturb peace and communal harmony of country. The accused had plans to wage a war against Government of India in furtherance of ISIS agenda to spread terror and violence with goal of establishing an Islamic State in country,” the NIA said.