The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on May 16, carried out searches at four locations in Tamil Nadu’s Madurai District for incriminating Facebook posts by an extremist advocating the ideology of the Islamic State (IS) terror group and fundamentalist organisation Hizb-ut-Tahrir, an official said, reports Free Press Journal. The case pertains to uploading incriminating posts on Facebook by Mohammad Iqbal, a Madurai resident, arrested in December, 2020. In the posts, Iqbal, an extremist, advocated the ideology of the IS terror group and Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a fundamentalist organisation, the NIA said. The posts on the Facebook page, “Thoonga Vizhigal Rendu is in Kazimar Street” was uploaded by Iqbal for denigrating a particular community. They were designed to incite communal disharmony among different religious groups, in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order, he said. The searches were conducted at Kazimar Street, K Pudur, Pethaniyapuram and Mehaboob Palayam in Madurai District. During the operation, 16 digital devices, including a laptop, hard disks, mobile phones, memory cards, SIMs, pen drives and many incriminating books/pamphlets/documents have been recovered, the official said, adding, further investigation continues.