NIA raids 20 locations across several states in RSS office attack probe
The searches were carried out at five locations in Uttar Pradesh, three in Maharashtra, two in Delhi and one each in Bihar, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Gujarat, Telangana and West Bengal, officials said.
The searches come after the three men arrested for the petrol bomb attack on an RSS office in Ranchi, Jharkhand on June 16 were also linked to the ISI-funded Tehreek-e-Taliban Hindustan (TTH). Officials said they were radicalized in Dubai.
Sources said that Saif Ansari and Aman Ansari went to Dubai where they contacted Pakistani national Shahbaz Rana aka Bhatti. According to officials, “They later became radicalized and agreed to spread TTH’s anti-India activities.”
Sources stated that the suspect remained in constant communication with the administrators through the ‘Botim application’ operating in Dubai and WhatsApp, and said that after the attack, they filmed the incident on their mobile phones and sent this video to their administrators.
