The National Investigation Agency on Tuesday arrested two members of the Islamic State module in Hyderabad, taking the number of those arrested count to seven, PTI reported. The group's reported chief Yasir Niamatullah, fund-raiser Athaullah Rehman and the five others arrested earlier were produced at a special court that remanded them to judicial custody till July 26, reported ANI.

On June 29, the NIA had detained 11 people after raiding a suspected terrorist module in Hyderabad. Officers recovered a large amount of cash, besides weapons and explosive materials during the raid.

Later, five were arrested – Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani alias Ibbu, Habeeb Mohammed alias Sir, Mohammed Ilyas Yazdani, Abdullah Bin Ahmed Al Amoodi and Muzaffar Hussain Rizwan – on charges of their alleged involvement in the terror module and conspiring to carry out bomb attacks. NIA officials said they had intercepted phone calls in which the men planned inciting communal violence and setting off multiple blasts in Hyderabad.