New Delhi, May 17 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two absconding members of a sleeper module of the banned ISIS terror organisation in a 2023 case related to fabrication and testing of IEDs in Maharashtra's Pune, the agency said on Saturday.

The two men, identified as Abdullah Faiyaz Shaikh alias Diaperwala and Talha Khan, were intercepted by the Bureau of Immigration at the Mumbai International Airport T2 when they tried to return to India from Jakarta, Indonesia, where they had been hiding out.

The NIA team then took them into custody and arrested them.

The two accused had been on the run for the past over two years and also had non-bailable warrants issued against them by the NIA Special Court, Mumbai.

The N...