GUWAHATI, AUG 8: After massive crackdown by police against terror groups in Assam, it has come to light that terror modules in Dhubri district are located in char(riverine island) areas, and working in a organised way from the remote location.
Talking to media persons on Monday in Dhubri, Dhubri Superintendent of police Gurav Abhijeet Dilip said, “There are two places where modules have been tracked. One is in Bilasipara and the other in a place that falls under Dhubri police station. It is because police and intelligence take longer to reach and also due to less physical accessibility,”.
The SP said that the revelation came to light after police arrested Jahura Khatun, suspected of having links to terrorist from Bilasipara yesterday.
He said Khatun actively helped cadres and visited training centres ‘not only in Dhubri.’
“She also tried to destroy evidence to save absconding suspects. But the investigations have revealed that ABT cadres use highly sophisticated tech such as a ‘peer-to-peer’ app to stay in touch.They also use IP masking and VPN in order to minimize their online traces,” Dilip said.
The Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), also called Ansar Bangla is an Islamic Jihadi organization in Bangladesh, implicated in crimes including some brutal attacks and murders of atheist bloggers from 2013 to 2015 and a bank heist in April 2015.
The police have started a massive crackdown against the jihadi groups in Assam.
The Assam police had first busted a terror module in 1999, when a Harkat-ul-Mujahideen cell was nabbed. After that, modules of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, Hizbul Mujahideen and Ansarullah Bangla Team have been busted by cops.
At present Ansarullah Bangla Team, which is affiliated to Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, has been most active in the state. In the last six months, five modules of ABT have been caught in the state.