4 Muslim youths arrested by Assam police for ‘terror
links’
By Muslim Mirror News,
Guwahati: The assembly election has
come to an end in Assam and on the other hand four persons have been arrested
by Assam Police from different locations in Kokrajhar and Chirang districts,
all said to be’ jihadis’ who were allegedly part of a module that had set
up a training camp in Chirang that was busted by the police in September 2015.
The arrested person identified as
Abu Bakkar Siddique, Jahanur Alam Sheikh, Samal Ali Mandal and Azizul Haque,
were arrested during multiple raids conducted by the police in Tulsibil,
Muwamari, Bhawraguri and Jaypur in Kokajhar and Dawkhanagar in Chirang, the SP
said
With the arrest of the four made on
Saturday night, the total number of alleged jihadis arrested in connection with
the JMB module in Assam has risen to 22 ,said Bodoland IGP LR Bishnoi.’
reported The Indian Express on Monday.
“We have a list of 28 persons
involved with this module and its training centre. of them, only six are now
left to be traced and arrested,’ Bishnoi said. He also said that those running
the training centre were regularly visiting different districts including
Barpeta and Darrang to recruit Muslims youths for jihadi training,the report
mentioned.
The Assam Police had last year
suspected that some Islamic terror groups had started recruiting Muslim boys in
the Bodoland districts of Chirang, Kokrajhar and Baksa with an intention of
triggering off fresh violence during the run-up to the 2016 state assembly
elections
Though the election had passed off
peacefully, security continues to be on the alert in view of intelligence
reports that recruitments by jihadi groups were still going on in these
districts.
It may be recalled here that the
three Bodoland districts had witnessed major clashes between Muslim migrants
and indigenous Bodo tribals in 2012 and immediately after the 2014 Lok Sabha,
leading to over 100 deaths
In December 2014 the Assam Police
claimed to have arrested one Sahanur Alom, an important Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen
Bangladesh (JMB) operative from a village near Sarthebari in Barpeta district,
not very far from where the training camp was busted in Dawkhanagar last year.
It may be noted here that the Muslim
population is highest in Assam after Jammu and Kashmir.Muslims constitute 34.2%
of the total population in the state and the issue of illegal immigration from
Bangladesh has been raised from time to time from
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