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Additional Director General of Police Hiren Nath said there was no formal arms training, but the terrorist started indoctrination and spreading Jihadi ideas.
Digital Desk: Assam Police has arrested 16 individuals, including a Bangladeshi terrorist, from different parts of the region for their involvement with the Ansarul Bangla Team (ABT) and Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
According to ANI news agency reports, Hiren Nath, Additional Director General of Police (Special Branch) of Assam Police, said that so far, 16 persons have been detained in the recent three cases.
Moving ahead, he said, "Among them, the crime boss Md Suman alias Saiful Islam alias Haroon Rashid from Bangladesh's Narayanganj district." He managed to flee from Bangladesh. In February of last year, the Dhaka anti-terror tribunal sentenced six people to death, and he was one of the six who escaped."
"He escaped Bangladesh and went to West Bengal, then to Deoband, then back to Bangladesh, and finally to the Assam district of Barpeta." In the Barpeta district, claiming to be an orphan, inciting sympathy from the locals. "After a while, he married a local girl, and they had a child, and then he began assimilating among the locals," the ADGP said.
According to him, there was no formal arms training, but the terrorist began teaching and spreading Jihadi ideas.
"There was no formal arms training, but there was indoctrination and the spread of Jihadi ideas." We also learned about the arrest of three people in Tripura, so we immediately dispatched a team there, and they were brought here, and we later arrested some other people," he added.
According to the top Assam cop, the state police have also busted another module in the Barpeta district, with 16 people arrested so far.
"Jihadi activities are fundamentalist activities, particularly in the North-Eastern region. This is a long-term plan by ISI agents with vested interests. It is an organized gang operating across the border." "This is not a new concept," a police official stated.
Hiren Nath provided an example of another incident, saying, "In the 1990s, Assam police busted a gang of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B), Hizbul Mujahideen, and then JMB in 2014." We had apprehended 64 people and recovered crude bombs similar to those used in Bangladesh and now ABT blasts. Every time, police received a warning and acted quickly to dismantle the gangs."
He also claimed that Al-Qaeda and the ISI were supported by the Ansarul Bangla Team (ABT).
"We arrested a person and recovered seven bank passbooks from a garage in Bongaigaon yesterday (April 24)." We're looking into everything to see where the money is coming from. We discovered that one account belongs to a man from the Kariganj district, which shares a border with Bangladesh. "We are keeping a close eye on the activities of these radical groups," a police official said.
He also stated that Assam Police is looking into every piece of evidence.
"Aside from lower Assam, we're trying to figure out if there's any connection with other parts of the state," the ADGP (SB) explained.
He also stated that police had recovered literary works and other materials from the arrested individuals.
Hiren nath added to his statement, "We have not found any evidence of organizing any arms training camp by ABT in Assam. They were trying, most probably, but we busted them. We are getting adequate support from the common people to bust them."
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