The arrested terrorists are Murshid Hasan, Yakool Biswas, Morshaf Hussain, Najmus Saqib, Abu Sufiyan, Manul Mandal, Liu Yin Ahmed, Al Mamun Kamal, and Atitur Rahman.

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) took a major action of raiding on Saturday morning. The NIA raided several locations in Murshidabad in West Bengal and Ernakulam in Kerala. During this, 9 terrorists belonging to the Pakistani terrorist organization Al Qaeda have been arrested. In the raids, the NIA has arrested 6 terrorists from West Bengal and 3 from Kerala. A large number of objectionable materials including digital equipment, documents, jihadi literature, sharp weapons, home weapons, documents related to making explosive devices at home have been recovered from the possession of the terrorists.

The arrested terrorists are Murshid Hasan, Yakool Biswas, Morshaf Hussain, Najmus Saqib, Abu Sufiyan, Manul Mandal, Liu Yin Ahmed, Al Mamun Kamal, and Atitur Rahman.

According to the information, the NIA came to know about the interstate modules of Al Qaeda in different parts of the country including West Bengal and Kerala. This group was plotting terrorist attacks at important places in India with the aim of killing innocent people.

The NIA said that according to the preliminary investigation, these people were radicalized on social media by Pakistan-based al-Qaeda terrorists. At the same time, many places including the National Capital Region were motivated to attack. For this purpose, the module was actively raising funds and some gang members were planning to go to Delhi to buy arms and ammunition.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will produce police custody of these terrorists and present them before the court in Kerala and West Bengal for further investigation.

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