BANGLA CONNECTION

THE WORRYING FACT ABOUT THE RECENT ARREST OF JIHADI MASTERMIND MUFTI MUSTAFA IN ASSAM PROVES BEYOND DOUBT THAT ABT, THE BANGLADESH WING OF AL-QAEDA IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, WAS FINANCING THE SPREAD OF JIHAD IN THE NORTH EASTERN STATE

- DIBYA BORDOLOI

On July 28, the Assam Police busted a Jihadi module in the Brahmaputra riverine area (Char) in the middle Assam district of Morigaon at a place called Moirabari. The densely populated Muslim-inhabited area was an obvious choice of the Bangladesh-linked Jihadi module and its masterminds to hide themself from the eyes of the security agencies.

The Assam Police intelligence had information about a Jihadi module running from the far-flung revirine area of Morigaon district and the NIA had also passed on the tipoff. But what was busted by the Assam Police in Moirabari shocked the entire State.

HAND OF BANGLADESH WING OF AL-QAEDA

It was one of the biggest crackdown of Jihadi network by the Assam Police in recent times. On the morning of July 28 it was challenging task for the police team to bust the Jihadi module as it was based in a madrassa located in a densly populated Muslim Char area. A huge team of Morigaon Police headed by SP Aparna Natarajan sealed the Jamiul Huda Madrassa and arrested the Jihadi mastermind Mufti Mustafa, who obtained Islamic education from Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra and was running the madrassa since 2018.

Police investigation revealed that Mustafa was receiving money from Bangladesh-based terrorist organisation Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) to spread Jihad in Assam. It was found in the investigation that small amount of money was transferred to Mustafa’s account regularly by terrorist organisation ABT’s prime member Amiruddin Ansari alias Hujur. This terrorist was finally arrested by the West Bengal Police. Notably, ABT is the Bangladesh wing of Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent.

JIHADI HISTORY IN ASSAM