Hyderabad IS module chief, fund-raiser arrested by NIA

Hyderabad: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today arrested two key members of the Hyderabad IS module which they had unearthed last month.

“Yasir Niamatullah, chief of Hyderabad module, and Athaullah Rehman, a motivator who raised funds, have been arrested by NIA from here,” sources in Telangana Intelligence Department told PTI.

“They are being produced in court today,” they said.

The NIA had on June 29 arrested five city-based persons on charges of their involvement in the terror module suspected to be linked to ISIS and conspiring to carry out bomb attacks.

On July 1, they were remanded in police custody for 12 days.

The five — Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani alias Ibbu, Habeeb Mohammed alias Sir, Mohammed Ilyas Yazdani, Abdullah Bin Ahmed Al Amoodi and Muzaffar Hussain Rizwan — were arrested following a series of searches conducted at 10 locations in Old City area, with the assistance of Hyderabad Police.

In its remand report submitted to the court earlier, the agency had said that the five accused had acquired weapons and explosive material to carry out violent terrorist attacks and were in touch with ISIS.

PTI