Chennai: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Kerala-based IS terror module president in Chennai.
NIA has identified the accused as Siyed Nabeel Ahmad who is the Ameer of the organization in Thrissur, Kerala. Sources told the media that Siyed Nabeel Ahmad was moving from place to place in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka to evade arrest.
He was traced by the Fugitive Tracking Team of the NIA and picked up in Chennai after tracking him for the past couple of months. The team has been constituted recently and is tracing a few more terror modules in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. NIA sources told the media that he was trying to escape to Nepal using forged travel documents.
Meanwhile, the police said that Siyed Nabeel Ahmad has a case registered against him in Kochi.
NIA sources said that Siyed Nabeel Ahmad had conducted a dry run in Kerala and had planned terror attacks in that state. Sources also said the NIA has already established the terror links of Siyed Nabeel Ahmad and is questioning him to get more information.
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