NEW DELHI: In a significant breakthrough for the Indian safety forces, the top of ISIS operations in India, recognized as Haris Farooqi, was captured together with an affiliate in Assam’s Dhubri district on Wednesday. The arrests occurred after the pair crossed into Indian territory from Bangladesh. Assam Police’s chief public relations officer, Pranabjyoti Goswami, disclosed that the Special Task Force (STF) detained them within the Dharmasala space based mostly on intelligence inputs.
“The arrested individuals have been identified as Haris Farooqi, also known as Harish Ajmal Farukhi, hailing from Chakrata, Dehradun, and his associate Anurag Singh, alias Rehan, from Panipat. Singh’s spouse is a Bangladeshi national who converted to Islam,” Goswami mentioned in an announcement, in response to information company PTI.
He additional elaborated, “Both suspects are deeply entrenched in ISIS ideology, actively promoting the group’s agenda in India. Their activities encompass recruitment, terror financing, and plotting terrorist acts using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) across multiple Indian locations.”
According to the police, Haris Farooqi and Anurag Singh face pending circumstances filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Delhi, in addition to by Anti-Terrorism Squads (ATS) in Lucknow and different places. The STF in Assam intends to switch custody of the detainees to the NIA for additional authorized proceedings towards these people.
