Guwahati: As part of a coordinated operation, the local police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested 12 Jaish-e- Mohammed (JeM) terrorists in Goalpara district of Assam. The arrests were made in suspicion of preparing ground for the outlawed Islamist terrorist group “Jaish-e-Mohammed.” This comes in the wake of the group’s two members’ arrests in Hojai district in Assam. After the NIA raided more than fifty homes close to the border between Assam and Meghalaya, they arrested Salauddin, a major suspect who was allegedly involved in financial transactions for Islamist terrorist groups through his RBI-approved CSP.
The NIA and Assam police joint team arrested the arrested Jaish-e-Mohammad members in a remote area called Tukura, which is close to the border between Bangladesh near the Assam and Meghalaya border. Nine members of the Islamic terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) have reportedly been apprehended by the team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) working with the local police. The members were apprehended from different locations from the Tokura III section under the Agia police station in the Goalpara district. As per the event specifics, a large group of Assam police, under the leadership of NIA officers, carried out a search operation in Tukra at around 4 a.m. on October 5. The arrests were made by NIA and Assam police reportedly in the third phase of their operation to bust the JeM operatives in the state.
Jahangir, Mafidul Islam, Shahabuddin Ahmed, Farooq Islam, and Sheikh Abdullah Ayobi are amongst the arrested JeM terrorists in the operation. Few names were not disclosed by the security agencies for further investigation. During the raid, the NIA Assam police team also apprehended two local Garo handlers from Bormohora village. While this was going on, the NIA team looked through a person’s computer desk and found shocking information about the state’s Jihadi network. The NIA and police withheld information regarding the seizure and details of the team’s raid on a nearby computer shop. In the meantime, the investigative team from the Krishnai region of the Goalpara district also makes an arrest of a Mulana named Mosemuddin Mazaheri in relation to the Jaish-e-Mohammed network bust.
