Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (MS)

Mangaluru, May 31: Sleuths of NIA raided 16 places in Dakshina Kannada (DK) district early in the morning on Wednesday May 31.

Home, offices and hospitals were raided simultaneously in the city as well as Puttur, Beltangady, Uppinangady, Venur and Bantwal.

The raids are conducted in connection with the case of plotting to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bihar.

These raids are part of the probe into the plot of the now-banned Popular Front of India (PFI) to attack PM Modi on July 12, 2022 at a rally in Bihar.

According to sources, the raids were conducted to track down hawala transactions of some local suspects from the Gulf nations. The money transactions had been made allegedly to carry out terrorist and anti-national activities, sources said.

The sources said that the NIA crackdown was to break the hawala network of banned organisation, the Popular Front of India (PFI).

The investigation trail of the Phulwari Sharif terror module case which came to light in Patna, Bihar has reached the coastal Karnataka region.

Earlier, NIA had arrested Mohammad Sinon, a Bantwal resident, Sarfaraz Nawaz and Iqbal from Sajipa Mooda, Abdul Rafeeq from Puttur in this connection.

With Inputs from IANS