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NAGPUR: Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) Sunday raided 21 locations crossed aggregate districts and busted an alleged radicalisation web operating nether the garb of a shot club.
At the centre was a Nagpur-based grocer who allegedly utilized a nine successful Yavatmal's Pusad arsenic a beforehand to indoctrinate younker into 'jihadi' ideology.Preliminary findings indicated galore suspects - projected arsenic footballers - maintained interaction with cross-border extremist Islamic panic outfits. Intelligence sources said they were progressive successful online discussions promoting anti-India sentiments and pro-jihadi views.
The grocer allegedly sent them, disguised arsenic a shot team, to radicalisation workshops successful Kerala and West Bengal. Expensive formation tickets constituent to a well-organised, financially backed web aimed astatine grooming susceptible youths done targeted meetings.
"This highlights a inclination of exploiting recreational platforms to propagate extremist ideology," an authoritative said.A Pusad native, the alleged mastermind had relocated to Jaffar Nagar.
Police said his family's decades-old ties with extremist Islamist outfits had enactment them connected quality radar. He was detained and questioned, aboriginal released but remains nether the scanner.During searches successful Pusad and Ahilyanagar, ATS detained respective suspects and seized phones, laptops and physics devices. Data has been sent for forensic investigation to retrieve deleted contented and hint communications. Investigators are mapping backing sources and wider links. "It's a stark informing astir hidden radicalisation efforts," an authoritative said.
