Continuing its operations against PFI activists/cadres involved in conspiracies to commit violent and unlawful acts/activities, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested another accused from Jaipur in connection with the Rajasthan PFI case.
The accused was arrested on Friday. “The suspect was identified as Mohammad Sohail, who was found to have been actively involved in PFI’s criminal conspiracy to disturb peace and spread communal hatred and enmity,” the NIA said in a statement.
Son of Mohammad Salim, a resident of H No-13, Sector 12, Murshid Nagar, Savina police station, Udaipur, Rajasthan, Mohammad Sohail, along with PFI cadres/members, have conspired to radicalize Muslim youth to commit violent and unlawful activities, the agency said.
Earlier, the NIA had arrested two accused Sadiq Sarraf and Mohammed Asif in the case. The case was initially registered on September 19, 2022 at the NIA Headquarters here. This arrest has taken the total arrests to three in this case. In a separate case, the NIA conducted searches at two locations in connection with AQIS Case “After conducting searches at two locations in Bangalore and Mumbai on Saturday (11.02.2023), NIA is probing two suspects in a terror conspiracy case.
Searches were conducted at Thanisandra, Bengaluru and Palghar, Thane in Karnataka and Maharashtra respectively in NIA case RC-46/2022/NIA/DLI with the active help of Internal Security Division (ISD), Karnataka and local police,” it said.
Inputs had revealed that these two suspects were in contact with foreign based online handlers affiliated to proscribed terrorist organisations over encrypted communication platforms.
They were allegedly involved in a conspiracy to radicalize youth over social media platforms and provoke them to indulge in acts of violence and terrorism, it said. The case was initially registered as FIR No. 158/2022 dated July 24, 2022 at Tilaknagar Police Station, Bengaluru, Karnataka and re-registered by NIA on November 30, 2022.
During these searches, various digital devices and documents have been seized. Further investigations in case are in progress, it added.