[Assam] Bangladeshi rebels sneak into Silchar Assam

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

        Bangladeshi rebels sneak into Silchar Assam
    OUR CORRESPONDENT Telegraph India      Silchar: Activists of fundamentalist groups operating in Bangladesh have been sneaking into south Assam in order to escape the heat of the crackdown on extremists in that country. 
  Intelligence agencies have reported that at least two batches of militants with fundamentalist leanings crossed over into Assam recently. 
  The last batch, comprising nine militants, entered Assam a couple of days before the execution of the infamous Bangla Bhai and five others on charges of sedition. 
  According to one intelligence agency, members of the terror network enjoy easy access to safehouses at different places in the south Assam districts. 
  Once they mingle freely with the population in Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts, it is almost impossible to trace them .
  Official sources said police were planning raids on suspected hideouts in a bid to flush out the infiltrators. 
  The co-ordinated raids will be launched once all intelligence inputs about the movements of the militants are properly screened and confirmed. 
  A report sent by the agency to the security establishment states that most of the fundamentalist extremists are now moving about incognito in these districts. 
  The extremists are from outfits like the Jamaat-e- Islami, the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, the Jihad Movement and the Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh. 
  The operational commander of the Jamaat- ul Mujahideen, Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai, was hanged to death on Friday. 
  The maverick leader was the most influential one among the present generation of fundamentalists who have taken up arms to establish the Shariat’s ascendancy in Bangladesh. 
  Police sources said vigil was being maintained on a few cells of the Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind, located in Kathigorah block of Cachar district, near the Indo-Bangladesh border. 
  The Indo-Bangladesh boundary in Cachar and Karimganj districts is porous, with many of the “vulnerable” stretches not yet fenced. 
  This makes it quite easy for infiltrators to sneak past the spread-out posts along the 132-km border, manned by three BSF battalions.

       
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