Ramagundam raid meets the wrong terror case
NIA searches reported in Ramagundam relate to a Gujarat cyber-terrorism investigation, not the separate Hyderabad-linked ricin case. The paperwork, for once, distinguishes them.
The available record identifies the Ramagundam searches with the Gujarat cyber-terrorism case, not the separate ricin case.
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The National Investigation Agency’s reported searches in Ramagundam on August 24, 2026, belong to a Gujarat cyber-terrorism case involving alleged denial-of-service attacks on 54 government websites. They are not, on the evidence available, part of the separate ISIS-linked ricin case involving Hyderabad-based doctor Syed Ahmed Mohiuddin.
The NIA’s official material identifies the cyber case as RC-01/2025/NIA/AMD and says it concerns alleged attacks on government infrastructure between March and May 2025. A report said Ramagundam was one of five locations searched for people allegedly linked to the preparation and technical development behind those attacks. The agency’s August 2025 release names Jasim Shahnawaz Ansari and a juvenile in that investigation.
The ricin case is a different file. The NIA says Gujarat ATS arrested Mohiuddin in November 2025 and that it filed a chargesheet against him and two Uttar Pradesh men in May 2026, alleging an ISIS-linked conspiracy involving ricin. Its release does not mention Ramagundam.
A local report said an engineering student there was questioned and electronic devices were seized, but those details are not confirmed by the NIA or a court record located here. Whether anyone was detained, arrested or formally accused in Ramagundam remains unestablished. The available record supports a cyber-terrorism search, not a ricin-plot arrest. Even terror cases need the correct paperwork.