Thiruvananthapuram, April 28: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday carried out searches at three places in Kerala in connection with ISIS Kasaragod Module case. They are suspected to have links with some of accused in said case who left India to join the terrorist organisations. The three suspects are being questioned by the premier investigative agency. NIA Raids in Hyderabad, Wardha: Four Suspected ISIS Sympathisers Arrested; Mobile Phones, Documents Recovered.

The probe agency said in a statement that it carried out the searches at the houses of three suspects -- two in Kasaragod and one in Palakkad. "These persons are suspected to have links with some of the accused persons in the said case who had exited India to join the proscribed terrorist organisation ISIS/Daish," the NIA said in a statement. NIA Raids 16 Locations in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh After ISIS Terror Module Tip-Off, Five Suspects Arrested.

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According to reports, the residences of Ahamed Arafat at Kaliyangad and Aboobacker Siddique at Nayanmarmoola in Kasaragod were raided from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. It said that mobile phones, SIM cards, memory cards, pen drives, diaries with handwritten notes in Arabic and Malayalam, DVDs and books of controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, besides untitled DVDs, CDs with religious speeches, books of Syed Kutheb were seized during the searches. The digital devices seized will be forensically examined and analysed.

(With inputs from PTI)

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