After the National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted ‘raids’ and arrested 10 individuals on the suspicion of being members of an alleged ISIS-inspired group, people soon took notice of the firecrackers, fresh printouts of ISIS logo, and country pistols that the agency presented as ‘confiscated’ during the raids.
Further, NIA officials also claimed to have confiscated country-made rocket launcher, which many media reports have cited, is the pressure nozzle of a tractor.
The ‘raids‘ were conducted in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. The NIA claimed that the arrested were allegedly planning suicide attacks and serial blasts, targeting political leaders in the national capital and other parts of north India.
Twitterati poked fun at the agency for presenting sutli bomb and A4-sized printed sheets as ‘confiscated objects’.
The pic on left is the recovery from a local Meerut gang after a consignment was intercepted in Delhi earlier this year. The second pic (right) is recovery made during NIA raids at 16 locations in West UP from would be terrorists plotting country wide attacks. pic.twitter.com/5YdBti98Le
— Piyush Rai (@Benarasiyaa) December 26, 2018
#NIA ने जिस #ISIS के भारत में बहुत बड़े आतंकी हमले की साज़िश का पर्दाफ़ाश किया है , उसमें जो कुछ बेहद ख़तरनाक चीज़ें बरामद हुई हैं , वो है – दिवाली के सुतली बम , देसी बम और देसी कट्टे ( तमंचे ) जिसका इस्तेमाल आज कल मेरठ की गलियों के बदमाश भी नहीं करते। pic.twitter.com/HQ5qcz7cdK
— Vinod Kapri (@vinodkapri) December 26, 2018
This is the NIA chief describing a tractor nozzle as a “rocket launcher”. God help our internal security https://t.co/DqbFzb7T0g
— Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) December 27, 2018
Diwali firecrackers, home made pistols and a tractor hydraulic tube “seized” as ‘mortar launcher’ @Uppolice and @NIA_India remind us of Gujarat model of policing while invoking #ISISTerrorModule .
This is only the beginning. Stay tuned… pic.twitter.com/ERBTjZaxxr— Pankaj Pachauri (@PankajPachauri) December 27, 2018
It was thoughtful of ISIS Operatives to have kept Freshly Printed Posters in A4 Size so that people can be sure NIA has busted hardcore Terrorist Module and not some Baraat in any average UP Shaadi pic.twitter.com/qzNi5ESe99
— Joy (@Joydas) December 27, 2018
If this is the entire Cache, i suspect NIA has busted a Random Baraat in UP Shaadi, not any ISIS Module pic.twitter.com/kvMIll2Pud
— Joy (@Joydas) December 26, 2018
NIA & UP Police’s anti terorrism squad jointly hunt down ISIS module planning to carry out UP strikes with ammo-sutli bomb below
But @Uppolice unable to find gau rakshaks & murder-accused in killing of cop Subodh/civilian Sumit in Bulandshahar while they brazenly posted videos pic.twitter.com/r2FqmzKEAv
— Rohan Dua (@rohanduaTOI) December 26, 2018
Is #SutliBomb not trending yet?!
— Shehla Rashid (@Shehla_Rashid) December 27, 2018