Chennai, Aug 1 (BPNS)
The Tamil Nadu state intelligence and the elite ‘Q’ branch police are on high alert after the Central Intelligence bureau quizzing and later handing over an ISIS module from Salem on Sunday. The arrested was working in an anklet-making unit of his relative and the Central Intelligence bureau quizzed him for 10 hours and then handed him over to the police. He was picked on Saturday morning and produced before the judicial magistrate court during the early hours of Sunday.
Police claimed, that the arrested Ashik was in touch with IS operatives for the past year and would likely have become a lone wolf attacker.
With the arrest of Ashik and the contacts he had maintained with the IS operatives from across the sea, the state intelligence department and the ‘Q’ branch have jointly stepped up the probe in the state.
The ‘Q’ branch has already prepared a dossier of several suspected Islamist elements who were drawn from the earlier days of Al Ummah of Basha, and the PDP of Abdul Nasser Madani. The state intelligence is monitoring the movements of these former extremist elements along with the National Investigating Agency sleuths.
As the Seventy-fifth Independence day celebrations are only a couple of weeks away, the police have stepped up checking in all the railway stations, bus stations, and even airports.
Sources in the Tamil Nadu police told BPNS that the state home department is keen that the state is not used for any nefarious activities and has given a free hand to the police to bring in a peaceful state. Chief Minister, according to sources in the home department is pitching for a trillion-dollar economy for the state and does not want any untoward incidents happen that create disturbances in the tranquility of the state.
Sources in the police told IANS that the state intelligence is working closely with the Central Intelligence bureau to bust any terror module in the state.
A retired IPS officer while speaking to IANS said that the state police is keen that no terror activities are taking place in the state for both a stable government and to scout investments from global investors.
