NIA plans to take custody of IS suspects soon

“We have registered fresh cases after taking over the two cases. Files pertaining to Bengaluru IS module case has been collected, while details of the Wilson murder case is awaited,” sources said.

Though the accused were taken into custody and questioned by the Q-branch and the Kanyakumari police, NIA officials noted that they will take custody of the accused again.

Suspects in both the cases are linked to IS and they are believed to be part of a national network of IS modules. In both the cases, the accused are linked and known to each other. Both the cases are being probed by teams headed by deputy superintendents of police from NIA, Kochi office.

Along with the two cases in Tamil Nadu, NIA will also probe the case linked to the arrest of three other IS elements, including TN module head Khaja Moindeen, in Delhi in the second week of January.

The NIA officials will have to track the telephone details and travel data of the suspects and ready a digital dossier as part of the investigation. Tamil Nadu police must have extracted a lot of information from the suspects, but we will have to look at the cases from a different angle to get a bigger picture, sources said.