The terror group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) India head and one of his associates have been arrested in Assam's Dhubri district, the state’s police announced on Thursday. The duo has been identified as Haris Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi, who is said to be India head of the terror group, and his associate Anurag Singh alias Rehan.
The two were arrested from near the international border after they crossed over from Bangladesh, Assam Police said in a statement. "Information was received from sister agencies that two top rung leaders of ISIS in India who were camping in a neighbouring country would cross over to India at the Dhubri Sector to carry out sabotage activities," the Assam Police said in a statement.
"Based on the input, an STF team under Sri Parthasarathi Mahanta, IPS, IGP (STF), Sri Kalyan Kumar Pathak, APS, Addl SP, STF and other ranks were deputed to locate and apprehend the said accused persons who are also wanted accused of NIA," it added.
Here is all about the two arrested terrorists including the terror group’s India head:
According to the statement issued by Assam Police the two ISIS terrorists were apprehended from Dharmasala area by the Special Task Force (STF) following a tip-off.
They were later brought to the STF office in Guwahati. The identity of both of them was ascertained and it has been found that the accused Farukhi of Chakrata, Dehradun is the head of ISIS in India.
His associate Anurag Singh alias Rehan of Panipat in Haryana got converted to Islam, while his wife is a Bangladeshi national, the statement said.
"Both of them are highly indoctrinated and motivated leaders/members of ISIS in India. They had furthered the cause of ISIS in India through conspiracies to carry out recruitment, terror funding and terror acts using IEDs at several places across India," the Assam Police statement said.
It is also stated that several cases are pending against both the arrested terrorists at NIA, Delhi, ATS and Lucknow among other places.
It also mentioned STF Assam will handover case to NIA.
Meanwhile, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has hailed the efforts of the state police over the arrest of two ISIS terrorists.
Taking to micro-blogging site X, he said: “We shall continue our fight against the fundamentalist and eradicate terrorism from the soil of our nation under the leadership of the Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.
