The National Investigation Agency (NIA) carried out raids at multiple locations in Kashmir on Thursday in the Al-Qaeda case of Uttar Pradesh s Lucknow.The agency said that they conducted searches at five locations in Shopian and Budgam .
Police also said that search operations in districts around Lucknow were under way.
LUCKNOW: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday claimed to have busted a module of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, said to be an auxiliary unit of Al Qaeda, with the arrest of two operatives.
The two were planning a series of blasts in Uttar Pradesh around Independence Day, the ATS claimed.
While the sleuths arrested Minaz Ahmad, 32, from a house in Kakori outskirts of Lucknow, his associate Masiruddin, 50, alias Mushir was picked from his house in Madioan at the former s instance.
An improvised explosive device (IED) in the form of a pressure cooker bomb along with a 9mm countrymade pistol was recovered from Minaz s house.
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