Bangladesh National Among 8 Arrested For Plan To Target RSS, Hindu Groups, Says Assam STF
NDTV
"The fact that Sad Radi moved from Bengal and Assam to Kerala - we got him in Kerala - indicates that their plans were a lot larger than just Assam and Bengal," Assam Special Director General of Police (DGP) Harmeet Singh told NDTV
A terrorist from Bangladesh who is a member of an Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Indian subcontinent was among eight terrorists arrested by the Assam Police's Special Task Force (STF) from Kerala.
Bangladesh national Md Sad Radi aka Md Shab Seikh, 32, came to India in November to activate sleeper cells in Assam and West Bengal, before he moved to Kerala, the STF said in a statement.
The STF said they worked with the police in Kerala and Bengal, and launched 'Operation Praghat' with reach across India after taking a detailed look into intelligence reports that a group of terrorists working under Md Farhan Israk, an aide of an Al Qaeda-affiliate leader in Bangladesh, would try to activate sleeper cells in India to target members of the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and other Hindu organisations.
