“Busted Ansarullah Bangla Team module was trying to target Siliguri Corridor to cut off northeast: Reveals probe after 8 terrorists arrested in pan-India ‘Operation Praghat’”, Opindia, December 21, 2024:
“Days after Assam police in collaboration with police in West Bengal and Kerala arrested eight jihadi terrorists, their interrogation revealed that they were attempting to cut off northeast India from the rest of the country at the Siliguri corridor. The eight persons associated with Bangladesh-based Jihadi terror group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) were arrested from Assam, West Bengal and Kerala under ‘Operation Praghat’ led by a Special Task Force.
The arrested jihadis included a man from Bangladesh named Sad Radi alias Shab Seikh, arrested from Kerala, who was the mastermind of the ABT sleeper cell targeting the Siliguri corridor or the Chicken’s Neck, the narrow patch of land connecting north east India with the mainland. This was revealed by West Bengal STF on Saturday.
ADG (South Bengal) Supratim Sarkar said, “They were planning terror activities in the Chicken’s Neck, Siliguri corridor. A person called Farhan was the head of the sleeper cell.” He added that the arrested persons were setting up sleeper cells in West Bengal by recruiting locals. They were mainly recruiting from two places – Murshidabad and Alipurduar, he said……”
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