New Delhi, July 9, 2025: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested three key individuals, including a prison psychiatrist and a City Armed Reserve policeman, following extensive searches in two districts of Karnataka in connection with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group’s 2023 prison radicalisation case.
The arrests were made at five locations in Bengaluru and Kolar districts, leading to the detention of Dr. Nagaraj, a psychiatrist at Central Prison, Parappana Agrahara, Bengaluru, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Chan Pasha, and Anees Fathima, the mother of an absconding accused. During the searches, various digital devices, cash, gold, and incriminating documents were seized from the houses of the arrested accused and other suspects.
The case (RC-28/2023/NIA/DLI) relates to the recovery of arms, ammunition, explosives, and digital devices, including two walkie-talkies, from habitual offenders who were conspiring to unleash terror activities in Bengaluru city with the aim of furthering the nefarious agenda of the proscribed terrorist organization LeT.
According to the investigation, Dr. Nagaraj was smuggling mobile phones for use by prison inmates, including Tadiyandaveed Naseer, a life-time convict lodged in terror cases at Central Prison, Bengaluru. Nagaraj was supported by Pavithra in this activity. Besides searching the houses of Nagaraj and Pavithra, the NIA also searched the house of Anees Fathima, where instructions from Naseer to her son, absconder Junaid Ahmed, for raising funds were found and handed over to T Naseer in prison.
As per NIA investigations, ASI Chan Pasha had, in 2022, been involved in passing information related to T Naseer’s escort from prison to various courts in exchange for money. The NIA has already chargesheeted nine accused, including absconder Junaid Ahmed, under various sections of the IPC and UA(P) Act, Arms Act, and Explosive Substances Act in the case. Investigations and efforts to track the absconder are continuing.
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