SHOCKING! FOLLOWING SRI LANKA BLAST MASTERMIND, MAN PLOTS ATTACKS IN KERALA

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested an Islamic State sympathiser and follower of alleged Sri Lanka bombings mastermind Zahran Hashim after he disclosed to NIA investigators that he has been following speeches and videos of Hashim.

The man identified as Riyas Aboobacker was arrested from Kerala. He is a radical Tamil-speaking cleric who is believed to have masterminded the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, which left 253 people dead and over 500 injured.

According to The News Minute report, the 29-year-old man informed the NIA officials that he has been following Hashim for more than a year and has also followed the speeches of Zakir Naik, an absconding Indian Islamic preacher and founder of the Islamic Research Foundation. He also admitted that he wanted to carry out a suicide attack in Kerala. He was being questioned by the NIA since Sunday when the agency unearthed the Kasaragod module of the terrorist outfit in Kerala during multiple raids at the house of three suspects.

According to an NIA statement, Aboobacker alias Abu Dujana, a resident of Palakkad in Kerala, has been arrested on charges of conspiring to commit a terrorist act. NIA further added that during his (Aboobacker) interrogation he had been in online contact with an absconding suspect Abdul Rashid Abdulla for a long time and has been following his audio clips, including the clip which he had circulated in the social media instigating others to carry out terror attacks in India.

Aboobacker revealed that he was also having online chat with Abdul Khayoom, a suspect in Valapattanam Islamic State case, who was believed to be in Syria. After verification, NIA carried out searches at three places (two in Kasaragod and one in Palakkad district) on Sunday, reports The News Minute.

NIA further states that, Aboobacker will be produced before a special NIA court in Kochi on Tuesday. Investigations are on in this matter.