Pune ISIS module case: Accused Shamil Nachan sent to NIA custody for seven days

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India]: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has been granted seven days custody of accused Shamil Nachan who was arrested in connection with the Pune ISIS module case, informed the agency on Saturday.

Accused Shamil Nachan has been sent to NIA custody till August 18. Following his arrest, the accused Shamil was produced in the court and a demand for custody was made by the NIA.

Investigation revealed that the accused Shamil was involved in terrorist activities from April 2022. The court observed that the accused was lying as the accused gave a false mobile number before the court.

NIA had demanded 15 days of custody of the accused.

Accused Shamil Saquib Nachan was arrested by NIA on Friday for his active involvement in promoting terrorist activities of the designated foreign terrorist organisation. It was the sixth arrest by the NIA in the case.

The accused, Shamil Saquib Nachan, a resident of Padgha in Mumbai’s Thane, was found involved in the fabrication, training and testing of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) for the commission of terrorist acts.

“Nachan had been working in collaboration with five other accused, identified as Zulfikar Ali Barodawala, Mohammed Imran Khan, Mohammed Yunus Saki, Simab Nasiruddin Kazi and Abdul Kadir Pathan, alongwith some other suspects,” said the NIA.

Two of the accused, identified as Imran Khan and Mohammed Yunus Saki, were members of the ‘Sufa terrorist gang’ and were absconding, said the agency. NIA had declared them ‘most wanted’ in a case relating to the recovery of explosives from a car in Rajasthan in April last year.

“These members of an ISIS sleeper module, including Shamil, were operating from a house in Kondhwa, Pune, where they had assembled IEDs and also organised and participated in Bomb training and making Workshop last year. They had also carried out a controlled explosion at this location to test an IED fabricated by them,” said the NIA.

Investigations by the NIA into the ISIS Pune module case on August 3, have shown that the accused had plans to commit terrorist acts with the aim to disturb the peace and communal harmony of the country.

“They had planned to wage a war against the Government of India in furtherance of the ISIS agenda,” said the NIA.ISIS, also known as Islamic State (IS), Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Daish, Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), ISIS Wilayat Khorasan, Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham Khorasan (ISIS-K)), has been working on its anti-India agenda by spreading terror across the country through violent acts.

The NIA has been carrying out extensive investigations to foil the terrorist outfit’s plans to spread terror and violence in India.