11 arrested in Assam, Tripura over alleged links with ‘Bangladesh-based fundamentalist groups’
GUWAHATI: Assam Special Task Force (STF) arrested 11 people over alleged links with Imam Mahmuder Kafila (IMK), an offshoot of the banned Bangladeshi terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Addressing a press conference, Guwahati’s Police Commissioner Parthasarathi Mahanta said the Special Task Force (STF) made the arrest on the basis of intelligence inputs provided by central agencies.
“An operation was carried out last night in Barpeta, Chirang, Baksa and Darrang districts of Assam, along with Tripura,” he said.
“These elements were working under the direct orders from Bangladesh-based groups. Their main aim was to destabilise Assam and the rest of the Northeast,” the STF chief said.
Mahanta further said the police teams have made a lot of seizures, sans any arms and ammunition, during the simultaneous raids.
Those arrested from Assam were identified as Nasim Uddin alias Najimuddin alias Tamim (24), Junab Ali (38), Afrahim Hussain (24), Mizanur Rehman (46), Sultan Mehmud (40), Md Siddique Ali (46), Rasidul Aalam (28), Mahibul Khan (25), Sharuk Hussain (22) and Md Dilbar Razak (26), he said.
Jagir Miah (33) was nabbed from Tripura, he added.
“The Indian security and intelligence apparatus has been keeping a hawk eye on jihadi activities in the Northeast, particularly in Assam,”
