Eight suspected members of the recently arrested terrorist organization Ansar-al-Islam Bangladesh were planning to target ‘Chicken Neck’. A top police officer gave this information.
‘Chicken Neck’ is a corridor connecting Siliguri in West Bengal with the North-Eastern states. He said that they wanted to create large-scale chaos in the Siliguri corridor by carrying out a series of attacks and creating instability.
West Bengal Police recovered pen drives and documents from two suspected members of a terrorist organization arrested in Murshidabad district.
Additional Director General of Police (ADG) Supratim Sarkar had told reporters on Friday that the two were part of a group of eight people caught by Bengal, Kerala and Assam police.
He said interrogation revealed that they had a specific plan to target the ‘Chicken Neck’, the only route connecting the seven northeastern states with the rest of the country, also known as the Siliguri Corridor.
The government said the state police had received information about a ‘sleeper cell’ of the organisation, which was active since August.
The government had said, “We have recovered a 16 GB pen drive, some jihadi documents and fake identity cards from two suspects, identified as Abbas Ali and Minarul Shaikh. We suspect that they were part of a sleeper module aimed at targeting South and The aim was to create instability in the sensitive areas of North Bengal as well as seven states of the North-East.
“They were setting up bases in Murshidabad and Alipurduar districts, where their conspiracy was to eliminate prominent Hindu leaders in the eastern and north-eastern regions and to carry out attacks like the 2015 murder of a blogger in Bangladesh,” he said.
