STF, Assam, will hand over the accused to NIA for taking on additional authorized actions in opposition to these fugitives.
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”The id of each of them was ascertained and it’s discovered that accused Haris Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi of Chakrata, Dehradun is the top of ISIS in India,” police mentioned
ISIS India head and one in all his associates have been arrested in Assam’s Dhubri district on Wednesday after they crossed over from Bangladesh, police mentioned.
In a press release, Assam Police Chief Public Relations Officer Pranabjyoti Goswami mentioned they have been apprehended from Dharmasala space by the Special Task Force (STF) following a tip-off.
They have been later delivered to the STF workplace in Guwahati, he added.
”The id of each of them was ascertained and it’s discovered that accused Haris Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi of Chakrata, Dehradun is the top of ISIS in India,” Goswami mentioned.
His affiliate Anurag Singh alias Rehan of Panipat acquired transformed to Islam, whereas his spouse is a Bangladeshi nationwide, he added.
”Both of them are extremely indoctrinated and motivated leaders/members of ISIS in India. They had furthered the reason for ISIS in India by conspiracies to hold out recruitment, terror funding and terror acts utilizing IEDs at a number of locations throughout India,” the CPRO mentioned.
He additional mentioned that a number of instances are pending in opposition to them at NIA, Delhi, ATS and Lucknow amongst different locations.
“STF, Assam, will hand over the accused to NIA for taking up further legal actions against these fugitives,” the police official mentioned.
Goswami mentioned data was obtained from sister companies that two top-rung leaders of ISIS in India, who have been tenting in Bangladesh, would cross over to the nation on the Dhubri sector to hold out sabotage actions.
Based on the enter, a workforce was deputed to find and apprehend them.
”A manhunt was launched in the worldwide border space to nab the culprits. At round 4:15 am of March 20, the accused individuals have been detected at Dharmasala space of Dhubri after they’d crossed the worldwide border,” it added.
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