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As part of a 2023 case about the testing and production of IEDs in Pune, Maharashtra, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has apprehended two fugitives who were identified as members of a sleeper cell of the outlawed ISIS terror group.

As the two men, named as Talha Khan and Abdullah Faiyaz Shaikh alias Diaperwala, attempted to return to India from Jakarta, Indonesia, where they had been hiding out, they were apprehended by the Bureau of Immigration at the Mumbai International Airport T2. After then, the NIA team apprehended them and placed them under detention, according to a statement released here.

The NIA Special Court issued a non-bailable warrant against the two accused, who had been evading capture for more than two years, and branded them proclaimed criminals.

Additionally, financial prizes of Rs 3 lakh each had been offered for information that resulted in their apprehension.

They are the subject of a criminal conspiracy prosecution brought by the NIA.

The two plotted to commit acts of terrorism across India in order to disrupt the nation’s communal peace, along with eight other members of the ISIS Pune sleeper module who are now being held by the courts.

Together with the other arrested defendants, they have been charged.

The terrorists were using a leased home in Kondhwa, Pune, to assemble IEDs.

In addition to conducting a controlled explosion to test an IED they had made, they had also planned and taken part in a bomb-making and training session at these locations.

In an effort to thwart ISIS’s deadly and sinister anti-India terrorist schemes, India’s top investigative agency, the NIA, has been aggressively looking into the group’s operations in India.

All ten of the defendants in the case had previously been charged under different sections of the IPC, the Explosive Substances Act, the Arms Act, and the UA (P) Act.