The arrested wife of Burdwan blast accused Shahnur Alom, Sujina Begum, has been spreading jehadi ideology, particularly among the Muslim women in Assam, police said on Saturday.
The Assam Police produced Sujina Begum in the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) on Saturday. The court remanded her in 14 days police custody.
“She had taken the basic training on jehad from some madrassas in West Bengal. She is a key operative of the jehadi outfit here and was assigned to give motivational training on jehad to Muslim women in Assam,” said Apurba Jiban Baruah, spokesman of the Assam Police.
“She is expected to cooperate with the police and we hope that she will not only give some vital information about her fugitive husband but also about the organisational bases of jehadi forces in Assam,” he added.
“She had been hiding with her son in a house in Guwahati after decamping from their house in Barpeta. She was trying to escape from Guwahati when we nabbed her,” Baruah said. While a team of the Assam Police and the CRPF had arrested Sujina and her minor son from the Inter State Bus Terminus (ISBT) on Thursday night, her husband Shahnur is absconding.
Both the couple — who were in the wanted list of National Investigating Agency (NIA), probing the Burdwan blast — had left their home in Barpeta after Eid last month and remained missing since then.
Shahnur is one of the 12 accused of the Burdwan module. NIA had announced a bounty of Rs 5 lakh on him. An NIA team has already raided his house.The spread of jehadi network to Assam came to light only after the Burdwan blast. A woman, who was arrested by the police after the Burdwan blast, had named a few people from Assam for their involvement in the network and following this seven people were nabbed from Barpeta district last month.
Simultaneously, the name of Shahnur Alom cropped up and the police intensified operations in Assam against him and his wife Sujina Begum. Police also claimed that they have enough evidences to prove the couple’s links with the Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an Islamic terror network based in Bangladesh and which was behind the blast in Burdwan.