ISIS connection: NIA conducts raids at 60 locations in South Indian states
Live MintThe National Investigation Agency is conducting about 60 searches across Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka as part of a broad crackdown on people with ties to the outlawed terrorist group ISIS. Jameza Mubeen, who had been questioned by the national anti-terror agency in 2019 for alleged ties to ISIS, was killed in the Coimbatore explosion in October 2022, according to the police. In connection with the cylinder explosion that killed Mubeen inside a car outside a temple, Ukkadam police previously arrested five people.police officers working under the guidance of DGP Sylendra Babu discovered a terror angle with ties to ISIS in regard to the car blast. The Kerala High Court earlier refused to postpone the sentences of three people convicted of attempting to fly to Syria to join ISIS, calling terrorism an “evil” that negatively impacted people's lives and freedoms as well as the development of the country in every way.