The Public Security Intelligence Agency in Japan on Friday inspected several properties of Hikari no Wa — a splinter group of the notorious Aum Shinrikyo cult.

Security officials believe the group is still under the influence of cult founder Shoko Asahara, who is on death row for a series of AUM crimes.

Japan’s public security authorities have received permission to extent surveillance of the Aum Shinrikyo cult — now called Aleph — and its offshoot Hikari No Wa.

Japanese authorities on Monday raided buildings used by the doomsday cult behind the 1995 deadly sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway, news reports said.

The agency decided to file the request with the Public Security Examination Commission, concluding that the group could commit indiscriminate mass murders because it is still under the strong influence of founder, Chizuo Matsumoto, 53, also known as Shoko Asahara.

The agency also asked for the surveillance extension to include Hikari no Wa, a new group established by Fumihiro Joyu, a 45-year-old former senior Aum member. The agency believes the splinter group is still integral to the cult.

Joyu has claimed his group, Hikari no Wa (Ring of Light), had scorned the influence of Aum founder Shoko Asahara, but the agency found portraits of the guru at several of its facilities during the searches. One official said it indicates the new group is “still under Asahara’s influence.”

Public safety officials on Thursday conducted their first inspection on the Tokyo headquarters of a cult group led by former AUM Shinrikyo leader Fumihiro Joyu and other relevant places after the group reported their inauguration earlier this week.

The leader of a group that split off from the doomsday cult behind the deadly 1995 Tokyo subway gassing declared Wednesday that his group no longer follows the teachings of his jailed former guru.

An offshoot group of the former Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult formally reported its founding to the government’s Public Security Intelligence Agency on Monday.

Followers of former AUM Shinrikyo spokesman Fumihiro Joyu reported to the Public Security Intelligence Agency on Monday that they have officially organized themselves into a new group consisting of 163 members, the agency said.