GUWAHATI, DEC 25: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said a total of 53 ‘jihadis’ were apprehended by Assam Police this year including a Bangladesh national.
Meanwhile, the BJP government in Assam has been taken tough stand against ‘jihadis’ and so far many of them were apprehendede from various places of Assam.
The Assam government has clear their stand that they would give the ‘jihadis’ to create a base in Assam for their activities.
While replying to a question of BJP MLA Terash Gowala on the last day of the winter session in Assam Assembly, Sarma informed that since March this year, a total of nine cases have been registered in seven districts of the state -Bongaigaon, Morigaon, Dhubri, Barpeta, Goalpara, Tamulpur, and Nalbari.
”These seven districts have been the sources of alleged ‘jihadi’ activities in Assam,” he added.
Sarma further informed that a Bangladeshi national Saiful Islam alias Haroon Rashid alias Suman was arrested in connection with a case registered at the Barpeta police station.
”He was involved as an ‘imam’ of a mosque in the Barpeta district and was also working as an Arabic teacher in an Islamic academy there. He was distributing booklets related to jihadis and was encouraging Muslims to get involved in ‘Jihadi’ activities through his speeches,” Sarma added.
Sarma also said that five other people are on run in alleged ‘jihadi’ cases and were encouraging Muslim youths through their speeches in different mosques in the districts.
In another reply, Sarma also said that drugs worth Rs 1,118.86 crore were seized in the state during the period from January 2021 to November this year.
”From January 2021 to November 2022, a huge quantity of contraband drugs worth Rs 118.86 crore have been seized in the state and a total of 8,280 persons have been arrested across the state in connection with this,” Sarma added.