Guwahati: National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted raids in Assam and arrested 4 suspected Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) terrorists. Four Islamists have been taken into custody by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from various locations inside the Goalpara district of Assam in connection with the ongoing anti-terror operations by the investigation agency. Since 3 am of December 12 NIA has conducted search operations in various parts of the district. Assam police Special Task Force (STF) is helping the NIA in the raids. The four—Sahanur Alam, Joynal Abedin, Sahanur Islam, and Abu Taleb Ahmed—have been arrested and are being questioned at the Goalpara reserve police outpost following raids at Krishnai, Tukura, Barpahar, and Gobindapurchala in the district. Recall that Sheikh Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi was detained by the NIA during a search in the district in October of last year. He was suspected of being connected to the outlawed Islamic terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). Sources in Assam police told ‘Organiser Weekly’ that the arrested Sheikh Sultan Salahuddin Ayyubi’s was organising a base for the LeT including organising funds for the terror outfit.
Earlier in October, 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. 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.
