Indian anti-terror police busts Islamic State cell, arrests 10 suspects

India's anti-terror police Wednesday claimed to have busted an Islamic State militant cell in the southern city of Hyderabad and arrested 10 suspected operatives.

"The Islamic State module was busted in the old quarters of Hyderabad during raids by sleuths of the National Investigation Agency, following a tip-off by intelligence agencies," a senior police official said, on condition of anonymity.

A huge cache of weapons and explosives, apart from huge quantities of cash, have been seized from those arrested during the raids, the official said, adding that the raids came in the wake of inputs of a multiple terror attacks plan in Hyderabad.

"The anti-terror police and intelligence sleuths are interrogating those arrested to ascertain the extent of damage they would have tried to inflict on Hyderabad by carrying out multiple terror explosions," he said.

This is not the first time that an Islamic State cell has been busted in India. Earlier this year, 14 suspected sympathizers of the militant network were arrested from across the country in an anti-terror operation by the National Investigation Agency. Endit