Patna

Three persons, including a retired police sub-inspector, were arrested after raids in the Phulwari Sharif area of the city which led to the seizure of documents about Popular Front of India’s 'Mission 2047'.

The mission states ambitions to make India an Islamic state on the 100^th anniversary of its independence.

According to the state police, the arrested individuals were providing training to the youth on terror activities.

Patna Police have registered FIR against 26 people and some of them were from Jharkhand, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu.

The arrested accused include a retired sub-inspector of Jharkhand and a former Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) member.

According to the police, the raids conducted by the NIA and ATS were on specific intelligence inputs.

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Police suspect this to be a new terror module that was emerging from Patna.