Nine held for ISIS links planned mass killings Photo Credit: PTI Nine held for ISIS links planned mass killings

Mumbai: Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested 9 people who had formed an organisation Ummat-E-Muhammadiya and were in touch with the banned Islamic State (ISIS). Out of 9, one is the son Rashid Malbari - a close aide of Dawood Ibrahim. According to Maharashtra ATS, they were planning a mass killing by mixing poison in food and drinks at some gathering and were reportedly in touch with someone from ISIS based out of India.

According to an officer from ATS, most of the arrested people are well qualified with 2 engineers, 1 student pursuing engineering, 1 pharmacist and one a student of class 11.

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During the raid, several labelled bottles with different chemical names were also seized which are yet to be tested. Apart from this, 6 pen drives, 24 cell phones, 6 laptops, 6 wifi pods, 24 DVDs and CDs, 12 hard drives, 6 memory cards have also been seized.

Earlier today, Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested nine persons from Mumbra in Thane district and Aurangabad for alleged links with ISIS. All the 9 were arrested under the Indian Penal Code's Section 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) and related provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Bombay Police Act.

The ATS was tracking the suspects from a while and after receiving relevant inputs the raids were conducted at various places in the state. As per the ATS reports, the suspects were planning to carry out attacks ahead of the Republic Day and investigations are on to find if other people were connected to the arrested accused.

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