Newsinc24 Team The Assam Police's Special Task Force (STF) on Wednesday arrested the ISIS India chief, Haris Farooqi and one of his associates, who are on the National Investigation Agency's most wanted list after they entered Assam's Dhubri illegally from neighbouring Bangladesh. Agencies received information that two members of ISIS in India who were camping in a neighbouring country would cross over to India at the Dhubri Sector to carry out sabotage activities.
On Tuesday evening, the STF team launched a manhunt in the international border area and intercepted two suspects in the early hours of Wednesday at the Dharmasala area of Dhubri after they had crossed the international border, police added.The arrested ISIS cadres have been identified as Harish Ajmal Farooqi alias Harish Ajmal Farukhi and Anurag Singh alias Rehan. Police said that Farooqi is a resident of Uttarakhand's Dehradun while Anurag Singh is a resident of Haryana's Panipat. As per police, Anurag Singh got converted to Islam while his wife is a Bangladeshi national.
"They had furthered the cause of ISIS in India through conspiracies to carry out recruitment, terror funding and terror acts using IEDs at several places across India," the statement said. The police official said several cases are pending against them at NIA, Delhi, ATS and Lucknow among other places.
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