chennaicoimbatore a team of national investigation agency officials from kochi in kerala conducted raids at seven places in chennai coimbatore and tindivanam as part of their investigations into a conspiracy to kill hindu leaders in tamil nadu and kerala the raids which went on for 4 to 10 hours on wednesday were conducted at otteri mahakavi bharathi nagar and pallavaram in chennai and at ukkadam kunniyamuthur and nh road in coimbatore besides in tindivanam the nia team of the kerala police recently arrested a 7member gang under the unlawful activities prevention act uapa for conspiring to kill hindu makkal katchi founderpresident arjun sampath and sakthi sena leader anbu mani from the gang the nia team learned about supporters holed up in various parts of tamil nadu who were to assist them in their operation the nia team obtained a search warrant from the nia special court in poonamallee and continued surprise checks the team was accompanied by k mahendar deputy director of the directorategeneral of training and s gopinath another officer from dgtthe team along with local police searched the residence of s shamsudeen 20 a resident of parasuraman street at pallavaram no information about seizures made was given a similar raid was held by another team of nia officials at the house of s salavudeen 25 on strahans road at pattalam near pulianthope the officials seized a samsung mobile phone with its imei numbers partly erased a dvd on which was written gana in tamil a sdpi visiting card in the name b kareemullah basha a lenova mobile phone with its imei number intact a uco bank deposit slip a bank pass book and a copy of the holy quran were seized from salaudeens housein coimbatore a team searched the houses of i jaffer shaddique ali 29 a resident of pudu nagar in mahakavi bharathi nagar ashique at variety hall road and faizal at gm nagarat faizals house unaccounted cash amounting to 216 lakh was seized along with three new mobile phones a 21cm long knife islamic literature and letters written in the letter pad of a muslim outfit sources privy to the investigation saidofficials seized pamphlets of a muslim outfit and sim cards from hamids house from ashiques house they seized rc books atm cards and newspaper cuttings the sources addedin tindivanam sahuls house at kuniyamuthur and ismails house were searchedon september 2 the kerala nia team based on a tip arrested shamsudeen salavudeen and jaffer s ali along with ashique and s ismailthe nia team questioned them and based on their statements police arrested an autorickshaw driver faizal rahman a resident of g m nagar near ukkadam in coimbatore and sahul hameed alias anwar a resident of kuniyamuthur in coimbatore the arrested suspects are now lodged in the coimbatore central prisonrecently arjun sampath appeared before the nia office at race course in coimbatore he submitted a petition along with substantial evidence stating the account of the threats he received over phone wednesdays raids followed the detailed complaintpreliminary