Chennai (Tamil Nadu): The National Investigation Agency on Thursday conducted searches at multiple locations in Tamil Nadu and neighbouring Puducherry in connection with its probe into a group of individuals, who among others, "were associating" themselves with the proscribed ISIS, the NIA said.
Incriminating documents, digital devices and handwritten notes were seized during the searches held at nine locations in Chennai and Mayiladuthurai in Tamil Nadu and Karaikal in neighbouring Puducherry, the agency said in a statement. The case relates to one Md. Sathik Batcha alias ICAMA Sadik of Mayiladuthurai, who along with four other accused persons, had "hatched a conspiracy for threatening the general public and police officials and had also attempted to murder the police personnel" during a vehicle check in February this year, the NIA said.
