A local court today remanded five persons, arrested by the NIA in Hyderabad on charges of their involvement in a terror module suspected to be linked to Islamic State (IS) and conspiring to carry out bomb attacks, in police custody for 12 days.

Metropolitan Sessions Judge K Rajkumar allowed the NIA's petition seeking their custody and directed that the accused be produced before the court on July 12.

Mohammed Ibrahim Yazdani alias Ibbu, Habeeb Mohammed alias Sir, Mohammed Ilyas Yazdani, Abdullah Bin Ahmed Al Amoodi and Muzaffar Hussain Rizwan were arrested by NIA following a series of searches conducted at 10 locations in Old City area on June 29, with the assistance from Hyderabad Police. The agency had detained six others, including a techie, during the operation.