The National Investigation Agency (NIA), the central agency that was installed to combat and counter terrorism in India had conducted series of searches in six locations in the state of Tamil Nadu after suspecting the possibilities of the connection with the terror plots mapped by the group motivated by the Islamic state militants in Coimbatore to take down the leaders of Hindu organizations and sieved the locations with the alleged links of the suspects who bombed Easter celebrations in Sri Lanka in last April. 

While speaking about the raids, the spokesperson of NIA had said that the agency had digged the searches at the houses of the people who observed close links with the accused and detained persons who have been under captivity for the case registered against them in September last year under the allegations of involving in building a terror plot. The reports had stated that the counter terrorism agency had conducted searches across the state including two locations in Coimbatore, one location each in the districts of Tuticorin, Sivagangai, Nagapattinam and Trichy.

The spokesperson had cited that throughout the raids, the authorities had recovered and seized two laptops, five SIM cards, eight mobile phones, one secure digital card and 14 documents and further indicated that the package of seized documents would undergo forensic examinations. The agency had questioned the persons in the locations to disclose their links and affiliation with the accused inmates of Coimbatore terror plot.

The thread of conspiracy and alleged terror plot goes on towards different directions across the state since September last year after the state police had arrested the terror suspects with the links in Coimbatore following which the NIA had filed a charge sheet against the suspects on February 2019 and the spokesperson had cited that these accused had webbed towards the terror circle of the idealogy of ISIS through incited by the speeches and videos by Sri Lankan IS leader through active involvement in social media platforms.

The NIA official in Chennai had stated that the agency had raided the locations after receiving the inputs about the plot to murder the leader of Hindu Makkal Katchi Arjun Sampath and his son. In the month of July, the agency had camped in the state of Tamil Nadu and conducted their raids at 14 locations to smoke off the rise of terror plots and there were similar such raids in the months of August and September in the wake of suspecting the terror corridors. 

The state of Tamil Nadu was under series of scanner by the terror combating agency after speculating that the plot that had bombed and killed about 250 lives in Sri Lanka was framed in the state. The authorities had then detained two people from Coimbatore for their alleged connections with the suspects of Islamic state's wing in Coimbatore who planned to unleash the attacks across India with the motive of cementing the base for Islamic state militants.