ISIS module case: Special court remands five accused to NIA custody

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On Wednesday, a special court remanded five persons, arrested in connection with the Maharashtra ISIS module to National Investigation Agency (NIA) custody till August 14.

The NIA has taken over the probe into the ISIS module case from the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS).

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After the NIA took over the probe in the case, it produced the five accused - Mohammad Imran Mohammad Yunus Khan, Mohammad Yunus Mohammad Yakub Saki, Kadir Dastagir Pathan, Sima Nasaruddin Kazi and Zulfikar Ali Barodawala - before the special NIA court.

The NIA agency sought nine-days custody of the accused. The NIA claimed that two of the accused in the case - Khan and Saki had been imparting training to the pther accused in the case and were part of a frontal group of the ISIS - Al-Sufa.

Special NIA court judge A M Patil remanded the five accused in NIA's custody till August 14. A special court in Pune on Tuesday directed the transfer of investigation into the case to the NIA.

Khan and Saki were nabbed by police in the Kothrud area of Pune in July, while stealing a motorcycle. "The investigation revealed that Saki and Khan were wanted by the NIA in a March 2022 Rajasthan terror plot case, and they were the alleged members of the Al-Sufa outfit who escaped from Ratlam after NIA made some arrests in the case," investigators had said.

As per the ATS, Khan and Saki were hiding in Pune's Kondhwa area for the last 16 months and were sheltered by Dastgir.

(with inputs from PTI)