During the meeting, the terrorists hatched plans to assassinate prominent religious and Hindu leaders.
Assam Special Inspector General of Police Harmeet Singh on Thursday said several meetings were organized at Murshidabad and Farrakatta in West Bengal involving Noor Islam Mandal and his associates The issues against members of the RSS and other Hindu organizations were discussed extensively by the participants.
Singh said the motive behind these acts was to foment religious tensions and riots aimed at disrupting communal harmony and destabilizing the area. Police said Operation ‘Praghat’ was launched after a detailed and lengthy review of intelligence regarding clandestine anti-national activities by a group of people under the command of Mohd Farhan Israk, a close associate of police chief Jasimuddin Rahmani. . Bangladeshi national Mohd Sad Radi (also known as Mohd Shab Sheikh) was sent to India in November 2024 to spread their evil ideology and establish sleeper cells among like-minded people across India to initiate violent and subversive actions. Radhi visited Assam and West Bengal to meet sleeper cell activists of the banned ABT before moving to Kerala for the same purpose.
Multiple teams were sent to various parts of the country to identify the jihadists and arrest them.
On the night of December 17 and 18, 2024, teams simultaneously conducted search and seizure operations at designated and identified locations in Kerala, West Bengal and Assam. The accused was apprehended and arrested and a large number of incriminating documents and items were seized.