ISIS India head, one associate arrested in Assam
PTC News Desk: ISIS India's head and another top leader of the terrorist outfit planning sabotage activities were apprehended near the international border after crossing over from Bangladesh, Assam Police reported on Wednesday.
Based on intelligence from sister agencies, an STF squad was dispatched to the Dhubri area for arresting the accused, who were also wanted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), according to the police.
On Tuesday evening, the STF team initiated a manhunt in the international border area and arrested two suspects in the early hours of Wednesday in Dhubri's Dharmasala district after they had crossed the international border, police said.
"Both accused were arrested and brought to the STF office in Guwahati," Assam Police Chief Public Relations Officer Pranabjyoti Goswami informed.
The captured ISIS members have been identified as Harish Ajmal Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi and Anurag Singh alias Rehan. According to police, Farooqi lives in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, and Anurag Singh lives in Panipat, Haryana.
Both individuals are said to be highly indoctrinated and motivated ISIS leaders/members in India, participating in a variety of operations such as recruitment, terror funding, and planning terror attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
"They had promoted the cause of ISIS in India through plots to carry out recruitment, terror funding and terror acts by means of IEDs at several places across India," an official with the police said.
According to the STF, many cases have been filed against these two by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in New Delhi and the Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) in Lucknow.
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