Two more linked with ISIS detained

Two more persons have been detained by central security agencies in connection with the recently busted pan-India terror module owing allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) and will to be handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) soon.

The security agencies picked up a man from Hyderabad and another from Maharashtra, sources said, adding they were likely to be handed over to the NIA on Wednesday. The two, whose names have been withheld, are being grilled by a joint team of intelligence agencies.

The NIA has so far arrested 14 people belonging to 'Janood-ul-Khalifa-e-Hind' (Army of Caliph of India), the Indian wing of ISIS, who were picked up from various parts of the country for allegedly planning to carry out terror strikes here.

The NIA claimed that the accused were in constant touch with active members of the ISIS in Syria through Internet chatting via Skype, Signal and Trillion and were using social networking sites to motivate young men to join IS.

Those arrested included Mudabbir Mushtaq Shaikh, the self-styled 'Ameer' of group. He was behind raising the outfit after earlier attempts by the global terror organisation to set up its base in the sub-continent failed, sources said. Shaikh supposedly under instructions from Baghdadi himself, was active on some of the social networking sites.