Mohammed Sojib Miyan, Munna Khalid Ansari alias Munna Khan, Azarul Islam alias Jahangir alias Aakash Khan, Abdul Latif alias Mominul Ansari and Farid guided by Bangladesh-based handlers, NIA says.
The searches were carried out in Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Haryana, Rajasthan and the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry.
A former NIA court judge now in the Gauhati High Court moved the Supreme Court earlier this month with a petition taking exception to an order passed by 2 judges of HC.
The designated terrorist, killed Tuesday, was alleged key conspirator of 2016 Pathankot & 2022 Sunjwan attacks, built extensive network while in Jammu prison from 1994 to 2010.
Latif & JeM founder Masood Azhar were charge-sheeted by NIA for conspiring to carry out attack on Pathankot airbase. He was deported to Pakistan after completing jail term.
Shahnawaz alias Shafi Uzzama, Mohammed Arshad Warsi & Mohammed Rizwan Ashraf arrested by Delhi Police Special Cell. NIA had earlier announced a cash reward for info on Shahnawaz.
Shahnawaz alias Shafi Uzzama, a resident of Jharkhand, had completed BTech in mining from Nagpur. He was radicalised online & became involved in Pune IS module, according to cops.
Agency claims Myanmar & Bangladesh-based militants conspired with militant leaders in India to indulge violence with intent to divide ethnic groups, wage war against govt of India.
All of them are wanted in Pune IS module case, in which several arrests have been made in last few months. NIA offered Rs 3 lakh reward for information on them earlier this month.
On Wednesday, probe teams swooped down on associates of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, Canada-based Sikh separatist Arsh Dalla and Davinder Bambiha, who was killed in an encounter in 2016.
As early states developed in the Iranian plateau and northern India, ideas continued to circulate between the steppe and the settlements of the Iranian plateau and the Punjab plains.
WEF report flags growing erosion of multilateralism, long considered stabilising force. 'Declining trust, heightened protectionism are threatening trade, investment.'
Pakistan lacks capacity to deliver aircraft at pace suggested by its claimed contracts as it depends on China for avionics, electronic warfare, weapons, and on Russia for engines.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
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