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NIA Arrests Thangmang Haokip, Gets 12-Day Custody Order

By Drooid · Sep 30, 2026, 10:32 AM UTC · How we work

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NIA arrests Haokip

National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Thangmang Haokip, 48, from Churachandpur, Manipur.
He was taken into custody on September 25 2026 and presented before Special NIA Court-II in Imphal.
The court ordered twelve days of police custody for Thangmang Haokip.
Thangmang Haokip follows S. Palal Thadou Kuki, arrested August 12 2026, who remains in judicial custody.
NIA re-registered the April 7 2026 IED blast case on April 23 2026 under three anti-terror statutes.

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NIA raids Assam

NIA arrested 13 suspects in coordinated raids across 16 locations in Assam, West Bengal and Kerala.
Authorities seized mobile phones, pen drives and memory cards as digital evidence linking the group to extremist messaging.
The raids targeted Imam Mahmuder Kafila, an offshoot of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen seeking to expand its ideology in India.
Ten suspects remain at large, including one Indian national and nine Bangladeshis, NIA said.

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Historical Context

The 2008 Mumbai attacks, launched on November 26 2008 by Lashkar-e-Taiba’s ten gunmen, killed 166 civilians, injured 300, and caused $1.5 billion damage. In reaction, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government created the National Investigation Agency in 2009, endowing it with a INR1 billion budget and jurisdiction over terror cases. Now, NIA’s September 2026 raids across Manipur, Assam, West Bengal and Kerala seize phones, memory cards, and detain suspects linked to Bangladesh’s Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen offshoot Imam Mahmuder Kafila. These actions reaffirm India’s enduring counter-terror policy, aiming to dismantle transnational networks and avert attacks comparable to the 2008 Mumbai tragedy.

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NIA arrests Haokip

National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Thangmang Haokip, 48, from Churachandpur, Manipur.
He was taken into custody on September 25 2026 and presented before Special NIA Court-II in Imphal.
The court ordered twelve days of police custody for Thangmang Haokip.
Thangmang Haokip follows S. Palal Thadou Kuki, arrested August 12 2026, who remains in judicial custody.
NIA re-registered the April 7 2026 IED blast case on April 23 2026 under three anti-terror statutes.

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