new delhi when the national investigation agency sleuths reached mohammad azams house in jafrabad in northeast delhis chauhan bangar on wednesday neighbours presumed it was an income tax raid it was only a few hours later they learnt the truth nobody the family members the least expected azam and the others arrested including mohammed suhail and rashid zafar raq to be charged with being isis terrorists on thursday lane no 24 in jafrabad was abuzz with the news some residents stood at the street corners discussing the developments though most neighbours refused to come out of their homes for fear nia would summon them for questioningrelatives of suhail suspected to be the mastermind of a foiled terror plot insisted he was a pious man father mohammad hafiz ahmed who deals in inverters claimed the circuit boards suhail had in possession were for his hobby of designing new inverters the nia personnel didnt ask us about these materials or the purpose for which we had them at home in fact one officer even assured us that my son would be released since no incriminating stuff was found on him ahmed said i want to know why they arrested him if he is a terrorist punish him but dont frame him a few locals ventured to assert that suhail wasnt quite an extrovert he had friends but they didnt look like people plotting a terror strike admittedly however outsiders kept visiting him since he is a mufti said mohammad zayad a neighbourazams father said the nia sleuths questioned my son for nearly five hours before taking him and some books away our phones were also confiscated police returned later to inform us of his arrest he added we need to speak to him to know what he has done police action cannot be arbitraryrelatives of zafar a garments trader said the nia men arrived saying they needed to question him and arrested him after a few hours of grilling how could he be a terrorist asked his mother shehzada he has been running a successful business surely someone has framed him the families of zubaid malik and zaid malik did not speak to the journalists though a relative disclosed they were detained and some documents taken we dont know what these documents contained he said