Masood used an encrypted messaging service to enable his travel overseas to join the Islamic terrorist organisation ISIS between January and March 2020.
During interrogation, suspected Al-Sufa terrorists revealed that they had planned to execute bomb blasts in crowded places in Jaipur and Pune by placing explosives in motorbikes. Now their accomplice Alam is absconding and trying to attack Mumbai.
The NIA said in its press release, "The accused Shamil Saquib Nachan was found involved in the fabrication, training and testing of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) for the commission of terrorist acts. He had been working in collaboration with five other accused."
The searches at the house of the accused in Lohardaga district of Jharkhand and a rented room in Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh were conducted on July 16 and 17 and several electronic devices and incriminating materials and documents were seized, said the anti-terror agency.
The anti-terror agency attached the property on Monday under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967. The property is located in village Julwaniya, Viryakhedi Road, Ratlam, Madhya Pradesh.
Mohammad Tariq was arrested on July 6 by UP ATS for spreading the ideology of ISIS on multiple social media platforms while ISKP terrorist Sumera was arrested by Gujarat ATS last month