GUWAHATI: Assam police busted a module of Imam Mahmuder Kafila (IMK) with the arrest of 11 alleged operatives of the Bangladesh-based Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) offshoot shaped in 2018. Investigators stated IMK expanded its base within the state after Bangladesh’s Aug 2024 regime change that led to the exit of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Of the 11 folks held by Assam police’s Particular Job Drive (STF), 10 have been picked up from Assam and one from Tripura in operations since late Monday night time. CM Himanta Biswa Sarma acknowledged the menace from such modules. “Fundamentalists are positively energetic in Assam. The problem will stay for lengthy as Bangladesh is Assam’s neighbouring nation,” Sarma stated. STF chief and Guwahati police commissioner Partha Sarathi Mahanta stated IMK used encrypted social media teams to radicalise and recruit youths in Assam and close by states, unfold propaganda, increase funds by way of hawala and UPI channels, and facilitate cross-border journey for coaching. “Probe revealed that following the regime change in Bangladesh in Aug 2024, prime leaders of JMB, Ansarullah Bangla Crew (ABT) and al-Qaida within the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) issued instructions to IMK management to activate and broaden its Indian modules. Bangladeshi nationals Umar and Khalid have been assigned to coordinate Assam-based actions. The pinnacle of the Assam cell is one Nasim Uddin alias Tamim of Barpeta Highway in Barpeta district in Assam,” Mahanta stated. Nasim Uddin was amongst these 11 arrested. A number of expenses underneath BNS, 2023 and Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967 have been slapped on the suspects. Mahanta stated IMK, banned in India, was shaped by Jewel Mahmud alias Imam Mahmud Habibullah alias Sohail, described as a former JMB member who claims to be the amir (chief) of IMK and propagates the ideology of “Ghazwatul Hind (Battle towards India)”. Mahanta stated IMK propagated an ideology aligned with proscribed transnational jihadi organisations and operated by way of safe social media platforms. “One such social media group is ‘Purva Akash’, which features as a principal communication and recruitment platform. Folks from Assam, Bengal and Tripura have been being radicalised, recruited, financially mobilised. IMK disseminates extremist propaganda advocating violent jihad and the armed conquest of India.“ Investigators discovered that some Assam-based IMK operatives had travelled to Bangladesh earlier this yr on legitimate passports and visas for coaching and coordination, Mahanta additional stated.
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