: Senior BJP leader Bandaru Dattatraya Sunday alleged the NIA searches in the city showed there was a "rise in terror activities' and demanded that the TRS government form a special cell to probe it.
He was referring to the searches by the National Investigation Agency searches at three places here and Wardha of Maharashtra on Saturday in connection with an ISIS module case and detention of four suspects for questioning.
The former Union Minister and Secunderabad MP claimed the NIA probe revealed that 'Hyderabad is a safe haven for Islamic terrorist activities.'
"Now the recent NIA probe has revealed that Islamic terrorist activities have increased in Hyderabad and a large number of youths are recruited from there," he told reporters here.
He demanded that the special cell under the supervision of a Director General or Inspector General-level rank officer take up probe into such activities.
Dattatraya also demanded that the state government keep a watch in and around Hyderabad and the districts of Nalgonda, Nizamabad, Adilabad and Karimnagar, where he alleged, such activities were prevalent.
He slammed AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi for remaining silent over the matter and said he only criticises the BJP government every now and then.
The NIA had seized several digital devices and other documents from houses of the suspects on Saturday.
The agency has been probing the case since 2016 where it is alleged that members of ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) were involved in a 'conspiracy to identify, motivate, radicalise, recruit and train Indian Muslim youth on behalf of the proscribed outfit ISIS to carry out terror activities.'
In August 2018, the NIA had arrested two alleged ISIS sympathisers - Mohammed Abdullah Basith and Mohd Abdul Qhadeer from Hyderabad as part of its larger probe into Indian youngsters being radicalised to carry out terror strikes on behalf of the banned international outfit.
On February 7 this year,the NIA had filed a supplementary chargesheet against two accused in connection with its probe in the Abu Dhabi ISIS module case and the raids were carried out in connection with this module based on 'fresh inputs,' official sources had said.
The BJP leader also demanded postponement of the local body elections between May 6 and 14 and sought to know the need to conduct it 'in a hurried manner' when the general elections were on in the country.
The local body elections can be held later, he said.
Dattatraya accused the Telangana government of meting out injustice to BCs and demanded the Chief Minister and TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao to respond on the matter.
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