In a major breakthrough in the ISIS Maharashtra module case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) today arrested another person for promoting the violent activities of the proscribed terrorist outfit. Forty-three-year-old Dr. Adnan Ali Sarkar was arrested following raids from Kondhwa, Pune. The NIA seized several incriminating materials, such as electronic gadgets and several documents related to ISIS, during searches at Sarkar’s Kondhwa house. The material exposed the accused’s allegiance to ISIS and his role in promoting the outfit’s violent agenda by motivating and recruiting vulnerable youth.
 
The accused had hatched a conspiracy to further ISIS terrorist activities, known by different names such as Islamic State (IS)/Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL)/Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)/Daish/ Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP)/ISIS Wilayat Khorasan/Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham Khorasan (ISIS-K).
 
This is the fifth arrest in the case, which the NIA had registered on the 28th of June 2023. Four others were arrested by NIA in Mumbai on the 3rd of July 2023 after extensive searches in Mumbai, Thane, and Pune.  They were identified as Tabish Nasser Siddiqui from Mumbai, Zubair Noor Mohammed Shaikh @ Abu Nusaiba from Pune, and Sharjeel Shaikh and Zulfikar Ali Barodawala from Thane. According to the NIA, the agency will continue to probe the Maharashtra ISIS module case to unravel all the full contours of the ISIS conspiracy.