Assam police arrest 8 suspected Hizbul terrorist, Muslims take out protest rally against terrorism
Guwahati, Sept 23 (IBNS): The Assam police have cracked down on the Hizbul Mujahideen module in the state by arresting eight suspected Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists and detained three more people after the Uttar Pradesh police had arrested an Assam origin Hizbul terrorist.
After the arrest of Qamar-uz-Zaman, a suspected terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen who hails from Hojai’s Jamunamukh area by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) at Kanpur on Sept 13, the Assam police have arrested four of its operatives from different locations of the state.
According to the reports, police arrested a suspected Hizbul terrorist identified as Abhimanyu Chouhan from Mosoka No – 1 under Kheroni police station in Karbi Anglong district on Saturday.
Earlier, Hojai district police had arrested seven suspected terrorists including Qamar-uz-Zaman’s ender brother Saiful Islam alias Liton.
Qamar-uz-Zaman is the same person whose photograph was appeared in the social media with an AK-47 rifle as a Hizbul ultra.
A top official of Assam police said that, the Kashmiri separatist terrorist group had planned explosions in Assam and to conduct recruitment drive in Assam and send at least 12 Assamese youths to Pakistan and Afghanistan for arms training.
“We have so far arrested eight persons including Qamar-uz-Zaman’s childhood friend 39-year-old Shahnawaz Alam, his elder brother Saiful Islam. The terrorist group also tried to set up base camps in Assam and Meghalaya and procurement arms from Nagaland based arms dealer, separatist groups. A Jammu and Kashmir origin leader of Hizbul Mujahideen came to Assam few months back and holding several meetings with some people and a religious preacher. The Hizbul Mujahideen leader had visited several areas of Assam and Meghalaya,” the top Assam cop said.
On the other, Assam police had detained three persons from lower Assam’s Barpeta district last night for their alleged links with arrested Hizbul terrorist Qamar-uz-Zaman and they were identified as Nasir-uz-Zaman, Shahjahan Ali and Hemanta Deka.
Meanwhile, Assam DGP Kuladhar Saikia said that, lots of information has come out during interrogation.
“We are exchanging our information and getting intelligence inputs from them (UP Police) and verifying it. We have cross-checked the people who have been arrested. We are looking different angles including funding, arms dealing etc,” the Assam DGP said.
On the other hand, while the Hojai district police continues to bust Hizbul Mujahideen module, hundreds of Muslim community people on Saturday took part in a protest rally against terrorism at Nilbagan area in Hojai district.
The Muslim protesters urged all community people in the state to come out against the terrorism.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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