The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has launched a probe into the activities of a module of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), which is affiliated to the banned outfit al–Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS), in Assam.
In the first week of March, the Assam police had busted a module with the arrest of five alleged members in Barpeta. They were identified as Saiful Islam aka Haroon Rashid, a Bangladeshi national, Badshah Suleiman Khan, Khairul Islam, Taimur Rahman Khan and Noushad Ali.
Saiful, who belongs to Narayanganj in Bangladesh, worked as an Arabic teacher in Barpeta and had recruited the others for the outfit, as alleged. He had entered India illegally through the border along West Bengal. He was motivating young men to be part of sleeper cells for the ABT and other similar outfits, according to the police.
