GUWAHATI, June 23 – The Border Security Force (BSF) arrested one HUJI activist from Dhubri district, while, a major disaster was averted following the recovery of six powerful bombs by the Army near Tezpur this morning. Army sources told The Assam Tribune that this morning, the Army received a tip-off that some explosives were being transported in a public bus and a mobile vehicle check post was established on the Dipota bridge near Tezpur town. The bombs concealed in vegetable bags were recovered from a bus approaching Tezpur town from Kharupetia.
Army sources said that each of the bombs weighed around five kilograms and could have caused major damage.
Meanwhile, the BSF arrested one HUJI activist Maniruddin Sheikh, aged around 32 years from Panbari area of Dhubri district and recovered 72,700 Bangladeshi Taka and two mobile phones, one with a Bangladeshi SIM card from him.
Giving details of the incident, BSF sources said that the personnel of the border guarding force received an input that some Muslim fundamentalist elements were taking shelter in the Panbari area and managed to arrest Maniruddin. Sources said that during questioning, Maniruddin admitted that a Bangladeshi national was staying with him but he managed to escape.
BSF sources said that the arrested fundamentalist element admitted that he had visited Bangladesh a few times and it is believed that he was involved in helping militants in bringing in weapons to India from the neighbouring country. Further questioning of the arrested person is on.
BSF also admitted that frequent use of SIMs of mobile networks of Bangladesh by the people living near the international boundary, both in Assam and Meghalaya has become a matter of concern. Sources pointed out that very often SIM cards of the mobile service providers of Bangladesh, particularly of Grameen Phone are recovered inside India and smugglers, militants, anti-national elements and even common people are using the same as the signal of the Indian mobile service providers are not very strong along the international border. BSF officials are of the view that the use of SIMs of Bangladesh by the anti-national elements might prove to be a security threat to India in the days to come and efforts must be made to check this menace. “The Government of India can also consider the feasibility of putting up jammers of other technical devices to stop anyone from using SIMs or Bangladeshi mobile service providers inside Indian territory,” one senior BSF officials expressed the view.
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Army sources said that each of the bombs weighed around five kilograms and could have caused major damage.
Meanwhile, the BSF arrested one HUJI activist Maniruddin Sheikh, aged around 32 years from Panbari area of Dhubri district and recovered 72,700 Bangladeshi Taka and two mobile phones, one with a Bangladeshi SIM card from him.
Giving details of the incident, BSF sources said that the personnel of the border guarding force received an input that some Muslim fundamentalist elements were taking shelter in the Panbari area and managed to arrest Maniruddin. Sources said that during questioning, Maniruddin admitted that a Bangladeshi national was staying with him but he managed to escape.
BSF sources said that the arrested fundamentalist element admitted that he had visited Bangladesh a few times and it is believed that he was involved in helping militants in bringing in weapons to India from the neighbouring country. Further questioning of the arrested person is on.
BSF also admitted that frequent use of SIMs of mobile networks of Bangladesh by the people living near the international boundary, both in Assam and Meghalaya has become a matter of concern. Sources pointed out that very often SIM cards of the mobile service providers of Bangladesh, particularly of Grameen Phone are recovered inside India and smugglers, militants, anti-national elements and even common people are using the same as the signal of the Indian mobile service providers are not very strong along the international border. BSF officials are of the view that the use of SIMs of Bangladesh by the anti-national elements might prove to be a security threat to India in the days to come and efforts must be made to check this menace. “The Government of India can also consider the feasibility of putting up jammers of other technical devices to stop anyone from using SIMs or Bangladeshi mobile service providers inside Indian territory,” one senior BSF officials expressed the view.
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=jun2409/at01
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