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Assam STF arrests another member of Bangladesh-based ABT terror group
The Statesman Bhubaneswar
|January 22, 2025
The Assam Police's Special Task Force (STF) has arrested one more associate of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a Bangladesh-based terror group affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), officials said on Tuesday.
With the latest arrest, the STF so far arrested 14 associates of the ABT from Assam, West Bengal and Kerala.
An Assam Police spokesperson said that the STF as part of its 'Operation Praghat' operation against fundamentalists and Global Terrorist Organisations (GTO) arrested another wanted Jehadi/Islamic extremist identified as Ajibar Rahman (31) from Dhubri, an Assam district, which shares a border with Bangladesh and West Bengal.
He said that of the 14 detainees, including Bangladeshi nationals, they are working under the direction of Md Farhan Israk, a close associate of Jasimuddin Rahmani, the Chief of ABT.
This story is from the January 22, 2025 edition of The Statesman Bhubaneswar.
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