A day after Patna Police busted a terror module in the city, Superintended of Police Manavjit Singh on Thurday told media that it was not related to the controversial remarks made by former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma against Prophet Mohammad. While sharing the details of the case, Singh also informed that there was no connection with Pakistan-based terror organisation of those arrested in the case.
Three persons, including a retired police sub-inspector, were arrested after raids in the Phulwari Sharif area which led to seizure of documents about the Popular Front of India’s ‘Mission 2047’ for making India an Islamic state.
“There is no involvement of any mainstream religious institution. They worked individually, away from the public eye. This is not related to Nupur Sharma matter. No connection will Pakistan or Pakistan-based terror organisation has been established so far. The NIA team has not reached yet but they will get involved,” news agency ANI quoted Singh as saying.
He also said that those arrested in the case are members of PFI and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI).
Any organisation may have frontal and underground organisations. They were meeting under the cover of SDPI and PFI, but maybe running their own agenda. Their activities were only limited to Bihar. We cannot call them sleeper cells as they are members of PFI and SDPI which are still not banned,” Singh said further.
Police also informed that flags of PFI and SDPI, pamphlets, documents of making the India Islamic state till 2047 and other sensitive documents were recovered from the place during the raids conducted earlier in the day.
Patna Police have registered FIR against 26 people and some of them were from Jharkhand, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu.
On Wednesday, Patna Police busted a potential terror module. A retired sub-inspector of Jharkhand named Jalaluddin, former Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) member Athar Parvez and Arman Malik were arrested by Patna Police.
They are facing the charges of providing training to youths on Islamic extremism and terror activities. During the raid, the police also recovered a register wherein the names of youth were mentioned.