Hindu Voice Desk: In a significant breakthrough, the Special Task Force of Assam Police, in collaboration with the Kokrajhar Police, successfully thwarted a major terror attack during a raid and search operation on the night of 24th of December, Tuesday night under ‘Operation Praghat’.
The operation, conducted in the Namapara area under the Kokrajhar Police Station, targeted the growing threat posed by fundamentalist and jihadi elements linked to a global terrorist organization.
The STF operation, following an investigation, led to the arrest of two suspects named Abdul Zaher Sheikh, a resident of Joypur Namapara in Kokrajhar; and Sabbir Mirdha from Serfanguri in Kokrajhar. The arrest was made based on the interrogation of eight previously arrested jihadi cadres affiliated with the ABT(Ansarullah Bangladesh Team) which works as a affiliated to AQIS(Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent) terrorist group.
Further search operations led to the recovery of a large cache of arms and ammunition, and other war-like items from the hideout of one of the arrested suspects.
The recovered materials include four handmade rifles, resembling AKs models, 34 live rounds of ammunition, 24 blank cartridges, one pair of live un-primed IEDs with cortex, one handmade grenade with explosives, one circuit of detonators made from agricultural equipment, 14 electronic switches, thre iron cases used for IEDs, containing twenty iron pieces and plates intended for maximum destruction, and numerous switches and wires with explosives used in firecrackers, along with other incriminating items.