Guwahati:
The Particular Process Power (STF) of the Assam Police arrested two extra members of the Ansarullah Bangla Crew (ABT), a Bangladesh-based terror group affiliated with al-Qaeda within the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a senior police officer mentioned.
The suspects, Abdul Zaher Sheikh and Sabbir Mirdha, had been arrested from Namapara in Kokrajhar district on Tuesday night time, Particular Director Basic of Police Harmeet Singh mentioned.
“With the arrest of the 2 extra ABT cadres, the STF achieved an enormous success in averting a doable main terror act by fundamentalist and jihadi components of a world terrorist organisation,” Mr Singh instructed reporters.
Eight ABT operatives were arrested from Assam, West Bengal, and Kerala final week.
Following an interrogation, the 2 suspects led the police to a hiding place the place they’d saved an enormous inventory of arms, ammunition and different weapons.
These 4 handmade rifles that resemble the AK collection assault rifles, 34 bullets, 24 rounds of clean cartridges, a pair of reside unprimed improvised explosive gadget (IED), a crude grenade, detonators made with agricultural tools, 14 digital switches, and three iron instances used for making of IEDs, together with 20 iron items and plates for inflicting most injury and destruction.
The STF as a part of ‘Operation Praghat’ on the intervening night time of December 17 and 18 had arrested eight ABT operatives from Assam, West Bengal, and Kerala.
Among the many eight, 5 had been arrested in Assam’s Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts, two in West Bengal, and one Bangladeshi nationwide in Kerala.
The Bangladeshi nationwide, Muhammad Unhappy Radi aka. Md Shab Seikh, 32, was arrested from Kerala.
The Particular DGP Mr Singh final week mentioned the eight arrested folks had handlers in Pakistan and Bangladesh. That they had been working to arrange sleeper cells in numerous components of India. Additionally they deliberate to kill leaders belonging to the Hindu group and the BJP’s ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), moreover different violent and subversive actions.
Mr Singh mentioned they launched ‘Operation Praghat’ in November after an in depth examination of intelligence inputs about clandestine anti-national actions being carried out by a bunch underneath the path of Md Farhan Israk, an in depth affiliate of Jasimuddin Rahmani.
The operation was launched underneath the direct supervision of STF chief Partha Sarathi Mahanta.
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