The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday carried out searches at five locations in Jammu and Kashmir, and Karnataka in the ISIS Kerala module case and arrested four persons, involved in raising funds and radicalising and motivating more people to join the banned terror organisation.
An NIA spokesperson here said that agency personnel, along with state police units, conducted simultaneous searches at five locations — three in Jammu and Kashmir and one each in Mangaluru and Bengaluru in Karnataka.
The official said that searches were conducted at the premises of the accused, who were continuously in touch with arrested accused Mohammed Ameen and his associates through various groups or channels on encrypted chat platforms and had raised funds for the furtherance of activities of the IS.
