Police arrest woman for links with proscribed outfit Ansarul Islam

India

oi-Vicky Nanjappa

Dhubri, Assam, Aug 08:
A
woman
has
been
arrested
in
Assam’s
Dhubri
district
for
her
alleged
links
with
Bangladeshi
proscribed
outfit
Ansarul
Islam,
the
police
said.

Jahura
Khatun,
whose
husband
Abu
Tallah
is
also
wanted
for
his
alleged
connection
with
the
outfit,
was
apprehended
from
Naeralga
Part
II
village
on
Sunday,
Bilasipara
Sub-divisional
Police
Officer
Birinchi
Bora
told
reporters.

She
had
been
“trying
to
protect
people
having
association
with
Ansarul
Islam”,
Mr
Bora
stated,
according
to
news
agency
PTI.

“Two
mobile
phones
were
seized
from
her
possession,
one
of
which
was
burnt.
We
are
trying
to
retrieve
data
from
the
burnt
phone.
As
of
now,
we
have
gathered
enough
evidence
from
her
interrogation
and
the
other
phone
to
establish
the
fact
that
she
was
in
touch
with
the
members
of
the
outfit,”
Mr
Bora
said.

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Ms
Khatun
was
on
Sunday
produced
before
a
judicial
magistrate’s
court,
which
remanded
her
to
judicial
custody.
Chief
Minister
Himanta
Biswa
Sarma
recently
said
that
Assam
has
become
a
hotbed
of
“jihadi
activities”
after
five
modules
having
links
with
the
Bangladesh-based
terror
outfit
were
busted
in
the
past
five
months.

The
first
module
was
busted
in
March
with
the
arrest
of
five
persons
in
Barpeta.
Since
then,
over
30
people
have
been
caught,
with
11
in
the
months
of
March
and
April.
Two
persons,
including
an
Imam
running
a
Madrasa,
were
held
in
Morigaon
in
July.
The
madrasa
was
subsequently
demolished.