Seven held for Hizbul Mujahideen links quizzed in Hojai

Guwahati | Thursday | 20th September, 2018

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"Each one of them was quizzed at Dabaka in Hojai district by the agencies separately on Wednesday," said a senior police officer. GUWAHATI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), along with Uttar Pradesh's Anti-Terrorist Squad, Assam Police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) and other intelligence agencies, are quizzing the seven arrested persons nabbed by Assam Police in connection with their links with Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), an Islamic militant group. Qamar-uz, who had also visited Guwahati, had allegedly undergone training in Jammu and Kashmir 's Kishtwar district as well as in Pakistan in 2017 and joined the outfit there. "At present, the investigators are focussing on knowing more about their activities and other networks. Shahnawaz Alam, who had allegedly arranged a SIM card for Qamar-uz by providing a fake identity card, was found to be playing a key role for the outfit in Assam..