In a major operation, Indian intelligence agencies have intercepted the plans of a Malaysia-based Rohingya terror group having links to radical Islamist preacher Zakir Naik to attack several important places in India. Financial transactions to the tune of $2 lakh dollars (nearly ₹1.5 crore) have been unearthed which have been traced to Islamist preacher Zakir Naik and the Malaysia-based Rohingya terror group leader Mohammed Naseer.
A Chennai-based man, suspected to be a hawala dealer, had received a part of the sum.
The terror attack in different Indian cities were to be led by a Rohingya woman group which has been trained in Myanmar.
The likely targets of the group could be Ayodhya were the Ram Mandir is being built, Bodhgaya, Punjab and Srinagar.
A security alert has been issued in Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal to step up surveillance. At present, the farmer protests in the National Capital is being seen as a potential target to incite divide and reinvigorate the Khalistan movement.
The intelligence analysis suggests that the group was likely to infiltrate into India in the middle or end of December through Bangladesh which is a very difficult place for the border security to keep an eye as it has several ingress and egress.
Also, in a very important development, the intelligence believes that few conduits of the Popular Front of India (PFI) could extend logistics support to the group like safe houses and travel.
Zakir Naik is an Indian citizen who is now living in Malaysia. He is a rabid Islamist preacher who believes in the religious supremacy of Islam in India.
“It is spreading like a disease, the militant Islamism perpetrated by Rohingyas… The earlier we get rid of this, the better it is”, Wing Commander P Baksi was quoted saying in a report by OpIndia.