NIA and UP ATS raid Madrassa teacher’s residence in Gonda

LUCKNOW: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) along with a team of Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UP ATS) conducted a raid at the residence of a Madrassa teacher in Gonda district on Wednesday. The teams raided Madrassa teacher’s house located at Mewatiya area here in Gonda city.
The raids were carried out at eight different locations across the country. The places included - Gonda (UP), Sikar and Jaipur (Rajasthan), Delhi, Valsad and Surat (Gujarat) and Kasargod (Kerala).
The security agencies have also seized gold items, hard drives, phones, memory cards, debit cards from the residences of those raided.
IG NIA Alok Mittal said that the raids were carried out to probe the terror funding case of Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation in continuation following the arrest of Mohammad Hussain Molani from Nagor in Rajasthan on January 21. The investigation is continuing to unearth the larger conspiracy, to collect evidence and to arrest the other accused persons, he added.
The raid on the madrassa teacher residence in Gonda was conducted in the wee hours of Wednesday by the joint teams of UP ATS and NIA. The Maulana happens to be a teacher of Arabic and his recent financial transactions are under scrutiny of the NIA, said an official of the NIA.
FIF is a Pakistan-based organization established by Jamat-ud-Dawa. It is a front-end organisation of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), a terror organisation proscribed under UAPA. It was founded in 1990 by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, a designated “global terrorist”, said the officials of the NIA.