Overview
- Early-morning searches were underway in Padgha in the Bhiwandi area, with residences of several suspects being examined, officials said.
- The Enforcement Directorate led financial inquiries into suspicious transactions while the Maharashtra ATS provided operational support.
- Officials said nearly 40 searches were conducted across India with a major concentration in Padgha near Mumbai.
- Thursday’s action drew on earlier ATS operations in Borivali village, where 22 premises were searched in June and 19 mobile phones and documents on radicalisation were seized.
- Padgha has been a recurring focus of prior probes, including NIA raids two years ago and arrests in the ISIS Pune module case that earlier brought Saquib Nachan under scrutiny; Nachan died in June.