The clerk is on the run, and multiple agencies are trying to trace him. He had filed several forged medical bills and put the account numbers of ISIS terrorists for reimbursement.
NIA teams raided 19 locations spread across Ballari and Bengaluru in Karnataka; Amaravati, Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra; Jamshedpur and Bokaro in Jharkhand; and Delhi.
According to reports, Saquib Nachan has been at the helm of carrying out 3 bomb blasts within a span of 4 months (6th December 2002 to 13th March 2003).
Huge amounts of unaccounted cash, firearms, sharp-edged weapons, incriminating documents, smartphones and other digital devices were seized during the raids, conducted as part of the NIA's ongoing efforts to disrupt and demolish the attempts of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to carry out violent acts of terror and take innocent lives.
Saquib spent less than 2 years as a convict before being freed in November 2017. His release came 5 months earlier than expected on account of being 'disciplined' in jail.
NIA arrested the 15th accused in the ISIS-inspired car bomb blast case in Coimbatore, in which a suicide bomber was killed when his vehicle laden with IED exploded