NIA arrests four suspects in Assam over links to Jaish-e-Mohammed terror network

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested four people from Assam’s Goalpara district over suspected links with Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM).

NIA team along with Assam STF raids several locations in Goalpara district and nabbed four suspects in JeM money laundering case.

Sources in Assam police said, “The suspects, identified as Joynal Abedin, Shahanur Alam, Abu Taleb, and Shahanur Islam, were apprehended during night raids conducted in Hansilapara, Barpahar, Balbala, and Tukde.Couple of months’ back one mufti, Sheikh Sultan Salludin Ayubi have received money from JEM and was arrested by NIA Delhi in connection with money laundering on behalf of Jaish-e-Mohammed accounts in Kashmir. Joynal is a cleric in a mosque.”


The NIA had recently raided 19 locations across India, including sites in Assam, as part of its effort to dismantle terror networks. These investigations focus on modules working to radicalise youth and establish extremist ideologies in the region.

On October 5, NIA arrested some individuals from Assam for their alleged links with Pakistan-based terrorist groups and nine of them were from Goalpara.

Sources added operations are ongoing in various parts of the country including Anantnag, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, among others, to root out these networks and prevent further recruitment