New Delhi:
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today conducted raids at multiple locations in a case related to the radicalisation of prisoners by a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist, an official said.
The search operations were carried out at as many as 17 places in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and five other states, linked to the suspects in the case.
The Bengaluru City Police had originally registered the case following the seizure of arms and ammunition, including seven pistols, four hand grenades, one magazine and 45 live rounds, and four walkie-talkies last year.
Five people were initially arrested and their interrogation had led to the arrest of one more, taking the total arrests in the case to six.
The LeT operative and kingpin, T Nazeer, who radicalised these five people in the central jail in Bengaluru, is an accused in the case along with Junaid Ahmed, who is currently on the run.
Nazeer, who has been serving a life sentence in Central Prison in Bengaluru since 2013, had come in contact with the other accused while they were all lodged in Bengaluru Prison in 2017.
The NIA took over the case in October last year and conducted searches then and in December.