The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday made a sixth arrest in the ISIS Maharashtra module case for his involvement in the fabrication and testing of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) for the commission of terrorist acts and arranging a hideout for two other terror operatives.
"The NIA carried out these searches at the premises and hideouts of suspects linked to the banned PFI outfit based on intelligence inputs," sources said.
According to officials, Gope, who was arrested in New Delhi on May 21 and is currently in NIA custody, revealed the hideouts which lead to the seizures, made from the Khunti, Gumla and Simdega districts of Jharkhand on Monday and Tuesday.
"During searches by the army's sniffer dog detected some suspicious IEDs and other explosive material which were later on destroyed by the Bomb Disposal squad safely," he said.
Police conducted raids at the hideouts of the accused persons and made three arrests. The weapon of offence used in the commission of the crime by the accused Sumit was recovered, police said.
The NIA carried out searches at the hideouts of suspects in the case which was taken over by the anti-terror agency almost a month ago and it started its probe charging the "highly radicalised" arrested accused Shahrukh Safi.
Police have busted a terrorist hideout in the forest area of Tehsil Khari in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district and recovered a large cache of ammunition, police said on Monday.
People in PoK gave many examples where the students and political activists from the region are not allowed to express their opinions and they are treated as enemies and threatened.
According to the military's media wing, during an intelligence-based operation (IBO), in Balochistan's Chaman area, a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including IEDs, was recovered.
On Saturday, Mujahid wrote on Twitter that special operations by Taliban security forces against ISIS militants had begun in Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh.
Any confrontation on the Af-Pak border that has already witnessed skirmishes would surely mean bigger tensions and frequent closure of access to a landlocked Afghanistan.