News Desk, AnyTV, Dispur
Published by: Shiv Sharan Shukla
Updated Sun, 06 Mar 2022 10:18 PM IST
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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that many Jihadi terror modules are still active in Assam. Assam Police is engaged in busting these terrorist modules.
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Himanta Biswa Sarma said that on the basis of secret information, we had formed a special wing to work against jihadi activities in Assam. Now the Assam Police has caught a big terrorist module. We have to do a lot of work on this, he said. As per our information, there are many terrorist modules active in the state. In Assam we are developing our resources.
The Chief Minister further said that the information received during the interrogation of the captured jihadis shows that this is a big threat to Assam in future.
Significantly, on Saturday, the Assam Police arrested five people including a Bangladeshi national of an important jihadi organization in Bangladesh linked to Al Qaeda (AQIS) operating from Bangladesh in the Indian subcontinent.
The arrested persons have been identified as Mohammad Suman alias Saiful Islam alias Haroon Rashid Dhakliyapara, a resident of Atadi village under Araihazar police station area of Narayanganj district of Bangladesh. Apart from him, three other people have been identified as Khairul Islam of Balpathar village under Kalagachia police station in Barpeta district of Assam, Badshah Suleman Khan of Kharbali village under Kalagachia police station and Naushad Ali of Barpeta district. Apart from these, the fifth person has been identified as Taimur Rahman Khan of Dhakliyapara village under Hauli police station of Barpeta district.
On Saturday, Assam DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta had informed about this action. He said that in the preliminary investigation done so far, it has been found that Saiful Islam alias Harun Rashid alias Mohammad Suman who is a citizen of Bangladesh and illegally entered India and lived as a teacher in Dhakliyapara Masjid.
Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta told that Bangladeshi citizen Saiful Islam alias Harun Rashid alias Mohammad Suman came to Assam in 2019. Here he was making Barpeta district a center for jihadist activities and illegal activities by Al Qaeda and its affiliates. All of them are affiliated with Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) or Ansarul Islam. All these used to motivate the people of the area to join this jihadi organization and spread fundamentalism in the area.