West Bengal's Special Task Force (STF) on Friday arrested two individuals, Ajmol Hossain (28) from Nalhati and Saheb Ali Khan (28) from Murarai, for allegedly spreading the ideology of the banned terrorist group Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and planning attacks in India.
The Delhi High Court has been approached by Syed Ahmad Shakeel and Syed Shahid Yusuf, sons of Syed Salahuddin, the self-styled commander of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, seeking the restoration of their phone call facility in prison.
The Union Government on Thursday stated that over 100 terrorists were eliminated during 'Operation Sindoor', a series of precision strikes launched in the early hours of Wednesday, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (Pok), sources told ANI.
"The government has taken care not to give the other side an opportunity to expand the conflict in the sense that they have only attacked identified terror bases and launchpads. The places mentioned in the (defence) briefing have been known to host terrorist organisations like Lashkar-e-Taib
Ammar Yashar, a former operative of the Indian Mujahideen (IM), was apprehended by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) during the investigation into the Jharkhand module of Hizb ut-Tahrir on Thursday, said officials.
A total of 76 terrorists, including 59 foreign militants from Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), are currently active in Jammu and Kashmir, government sources said on Thursday.
A terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen was arrested in a joint operation by the Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Saharanpur and Kathgarh Police from Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir after 17 years.
"We had sent an STF team to Chennai, and with the active cooperation and assistance from Tamil Nadu police and Andhra Pradesh police, an active member of Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Abu Salam Ali, who is from Assam and who was hiding in Chennai, has been picked up,"
In a breakthrough under Operation Praghat, aimed at dismantling fundamentalist networks and global terrorist organisations across the country, the Special Task Force (STF) of Assam Police has once again delivered a significant blow to anti-national elements.