5 ‘jihadi’ modules busted in Assam since March, situation serious: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma | North East India News,The Indian Express
These operations have revealed that six Bangladeshi nationals entered Assam illegally to “indoctrinate youths” and one of them — Mohammed Suman — was arrested from Barpeta in March, said Sarma.
Assam has busted five ‘jihadi’ modules with links to Al-Qaeda-affiliated terror outfits in Bangladesh since March, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Thursday.
“Five modules (busted) in five months…so the issue is serious,” Sarma said, addressing a press conference in Guwahati Thursday. Since March, the Assam Police, aided by intel inputs from central agencies, have been carrying out operations in lower Assam districts of Barpeta and Bongaigaon.
These operations have revealed that six Bangladeshi nationals entered Assam illegally to “indoctrinate youths” and one of them — Mohammed Suman — was arrested from Barpeta in March, said Sarma.
These individuals have alleged links to the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a banned terror outfit of Bangladesh with links to Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS). According to Sarma, they had been operating several training camps during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sarma said Suman, who was arrested in March, had been living in the “guise of an Arabic teacher in a madrasa, and also worked as an imam”. Another individual, named Mufti Mustafa, was arrested from Moirabari in Morigaon district on July 28. Sarma said that the he ran a madrasa, where children were indoctrinated in ‘jihadi’ ideology.
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