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GUWAHATI
Assam’s Special Task Force (STF) arrested 11 radical successful 2 northeastern States for their alleged links with a extremist offshoot of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an extremist radical banned successful India.
The members of the newly-formed Imam Mahmuder Kafila (IMK) — 10 from Assam’s Baksa, Barpeta, Chirang, and Darrang districts, and 1 from Tripura’s West Tripura territory — were arrested successful a coordinated cognition connected Monday (December 29, 2025) night, STF main and Guwahati Police Commissioner Partha Sarathi Mahanta said.
The section constabulary helped the STF nab the 11 men, based connected the investigation of inputs connected activities of the IMK module successful India provided by the Central agencies, Mr. Mahanta said. “These jihadist elements were moving nether the nonstop orders of Bangladesh-based groups. Their main purpose was to destabilise the northeast,” helium told journalists successful Guwahati connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025).
According to accusation collected by the Indian information apparatus, the IMK was formed successful 2018 by Jewel Mahmud, besides known arsenic Imam Mahmud Habibullah, an ex-JMB member. Apart from the JMB, leaders of the Ansarullah Bangla Team and Al-Qaeda successful the Indian subcontinent helped activate the IMK aft the authorities alteration successful Bangladesh successful August 2024, and grow its Indian module.
Encrypted recruiting platforms
Most of the leaders and members of these extremist groups were released from prisons crossed Bangladesh aft the autumn of the Sheikh Hasina government.
“The activities are coordinated done unafraid societal media platforms. One of these, Purva Akash, functions arsenic the main level to radicalise, recruit, and concern radical successful Assam, Tripura, and West Bengal,” the dossier connected the IMK read.
It said that 1 Nasim Uddin of Barpeta Road municipality heads the Assam compartment of the IMK.
The dossier said that the IMK module employs a systematic process to radicalise and enlistee followers. The Indian members are fed with propaganda worldly and administered the ‘bayat’ (pledge of allegiance) to the outfit’s main Habibullah. The oaths successful audio-visual signifier are forwarded to him for verification and acceptance.
“The IMK besides exploits societal and spiritual gatherings,” the dossier said, citing a December 28, 2024 gathering successful Barpeta, wherever the group’s ideologues, including Nasim Uddin, advocated convulsive equipped conflict successful India.
The STF said immoderate IMK recruits visited Bangladesh connected valid passports and visas for training, which included bomb-making. Meetings betwixt Assam-based members and their Bangladeshi handlers person taken spot successful Meghalaya, it claimed.
The STF further said that the fiscal way has led to UPI transactions and hawala transactions betwixt the IMK’s Bangladesh and Indian members.
Police person registered a lawsuit against the 11 alleged IMK members nether Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 on with applicable provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
