Overview

• Officers conducted coordinated searches in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Delhi.
• The agency seized multiple digital devices, documents, cash and other materials described as incriminating.
• The operation follows the August 27 arrest of Arif Husain alias Abu Talib, whom investigators link to a plan to procure weapons via the Nepal border.
• The case began in July with the Vizianagaram police arrest of Siraj-ur-Rahman, whose interrogation led to the arrest of Syed Sameer.
• Investigators say the accused used Instagram, Facebook, Telegram and Signal to radicalise and recruit youth, with the probe proceeding under BNS, the Explosive Substances Act and UAPA.