Guwahati: The Special Task Force (STF) of Assam police on Monday arrested an alleged senior functionary of the banned terrorist organisation Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) from Assam’s state capital Guwahati.
The STF of Assam police received information that one Amiruddin Ahmed (54), also known by aliases Sunil and Surjya, S/o Late Arifuddin Ahmed, a resident of Satsiya Pokia village under the jurisdiction of the Fakirganj police station in Assam’s Dhubri district, would be arriving at the Inter-State Bus Terminal (ISBT) in Guwahati from Assam’s Barak Valley, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of the Assam police stated in a press release on Tuesday.
Accordingly, a team of the STF apprehended Amiruddin Ahmed from the ISBT, Guwahati. According to the police, the alleged senior Maoist leader joined the organisation in 2009 and was allegedly officiating as a mass organiser in the Cachar area in Assam’s Barak Valley as well as the observer for Dibrugarh district of Assam. The police stated that the accused was camping in various Adivasi inhabited areas of the Barak Valley and was working for the organisation.
The police stated that the accused Amiruddin Ahmed’s wife Nirmala Biswas, known by aliases Seema and Subhra, is also allegedly a senior functionary of the CPI (M), and is operating from West Bengal.
The Assam police CPRO further stated that a case in this regard has been registered at the STF police station and the arrested alleged Maoist leader will be produced before a court later on Tuesday and necessary legal action will follow.
According to the police, the banned CPI (M), designated as a terrorist organisation under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) since 2009, has been trying to establish its base in Assam for the past few years. The organisation primarily targets the unemployed youth of the Adivasi belts and tea garden areas of Assam to join the organisation. The law enforcement agencies have arrested several senior leaders and functionaries of the organisation from different parts of Assam in the recent past.
On March 6, 2022, the Assam police arrested 72-year-old Arun Kumar Bhattacharjee alias Kanchan Da, a senior CPI (M) leader, who was also a member of the organisation’s central committee, along with one of his associates, from a tea garden under the jurisdiction of the Udharbond police station in Assam’s Cachar district.
The then Guwahati Commissioner of Police (CP) Harmeet Singh addressing a press conference in Guwahati told the media that Bhattacharjee had been given the task of setting up a state-level committee of the organisation in Assam and to create a red corridor from a neighbouring country to the states in India including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana beside others where the CPI (M) has its presence.