Man with links to radical outfit JMB held in Assam: CM

GUwahati, Assam Chief government minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said a someone was arrested for allegedly sending speech sound book of numbers of several residents of Dhubri territorial dominion to the fundamentalist outfit Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh , which is trying to create disturbances in the state. The arrested man, an Indian, was the main conduit who supplied phone numbers to the JMB, and its members would then dial those people with the intention to radicalise them, he said at a press conference on Wednesday. The arrested person, Ali Hussain Bepari, had also been apprehended earlier but was out on bail, he said. The police are in the last stage of the investigation, and more details are likely to emerge soon, Sarma said. A strict vigil is being kept in the districts of Dhubri and South Salmara that border Bangladesh, he said. "South Salmara has been peaceful for the last five years, but there have been several activities in recent times in Dhubri. So, we have decided to continue with the shoot-at-sight orders at night during the Durga Puja as we are apprehensive about the law and order situation," he said. Sarma said no FIR will be filed against former Planning Commission member Sayeeda Hamid "for saying that Bangladeshis can also live here". "If I file an FIR, then she will collect contributions from different parts of the country to fight the case. She will be only enriched," he said. If she, however, comes back to Assam, the state government will do what is required to be done according to the law, the CM said. The chief minister said that since the Assam agitation around four decades ago, no Bangladeshi had been deported, but now "every week we are pushing back 70-100 people who are trying to enter the country". He said that it is a fact that Assam and the rest of the Northeast are used as a corridor by infiltrators. Regarding the National Register of Citizens , Sarma alleged that the "people of Assam have been cheated as there are many anomalies in the list with many doubtful entries made". The final NRC released on August 31, 2019, excluded 19,06,657 applicants. A total of 3,11,21,004 names were included out of 3,30,27,661 applicants. It has, however, not yet been notified. "Our final aim is to ensure that the Centre, Supreme Court or the Assam government, within its powers, examine the legal angle and find a solution as the existing NRC cannot be accepted by us," he said. This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.