{"id":302934,"date":"2018-09-18T13:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302934"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:59:23","slug":"police-arrest-seven-persons-for-links-with-hizb-ul-mujahideen-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/police-arrest-seven-persons-for-links-with-hizb-ul-mujahideen-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest seven persons for links with Hizb-ul Mujahideen in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/over-70-prisoners-of-byculla-jail-fall-ill-admitted-to-jj-hospital\/jail\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-300656\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300656 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/jail-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jail-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jail-529x420.jpg 529w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/jail.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a>A total of seven persons have been apprehended in Assam over the past four days on the suspicion of having links with the terrorist organisation, Hizb-ul Mujahideen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The arrests of the seven persons were made after a massive manhunt was launched by Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad, along with the Assam Police, and Crime Branch last week in Assam as well as Uttar Pradesh after the arrest of suspected Hizb-ul Mujahideen terrorist Qamar-us-Zaman in Kanpur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pallav Bhattacharyya, Special Director General of Police (Assam) while confirming the developments reportedly said, &#8220;So far seven members of Hizb-ul Mujahideen have been apprehended. If you look at the history of Assam, several foreign-based extremist organisations tried to gain foot-hold here but none succeeded. We are confident of being able to neutralise them with help of people of Assam.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On September 15, two men, identified as Saidul Alam and Omar Farooq, were arrested for alleged links with Zaman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On September 17 police arrested Saifudin brother of Qamar-uz-Zaman. He was produced in the court and was sent to 10 day police remand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0Bhattacharyya said, \u201cPolice is interrogating Saifudin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Three other linkmen were arrested named Riazudin Bhuyan, Jainal Ahmad and Bharul Islam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are analyzing various inputs as to for what this outfit was here,\u201d Bhattacharyya added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of seven persons have been apprehended in Assam over the past four days on the suspicion of having links with the terrorist organisation, Hizb-ul Mujahideen. The arrests of the seven persons were made after a massive manhunt was launched by Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad, along with the Assam Police, and Crime Branch last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,2014],"tags":[1758,5135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302935,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302934\/revisions\/302935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}