Madrasa with Ansarul Islam link razed to the ground

Morigaon/Guwahati: Police officials said on Thursday that a madrassa in Assam's Morigaon district where the head mufti was taken to custody for alleged links to Ansarul Islam, a Bangladeshi terror outfit was demolished.

This morning, the Jamatul Madrasa in Moirabari, which was sealed following the recent arrest of Mufti Mustafa, was razed to the ground.

"Out of the five terror modules busted in Assam since March this year, the Morigaon module in which two persons, including Mustafa, were arrested had used the most sophisticated communication technology and can be considered to be the most dangerous," Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma later said at a press conference in Guwahati.

He said the madrassa was demolished under the Disaster Management Act and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. It was built on land allotted to Mustafa from his father's property and was without permission from the local panchayat or district administration.

Besides, the power connection to the madrasa was found to be illegal and so the deputy commissioner after observing all the legal formalities ordered the demolition, he said.

Mustafa was educated in Uttar Pradesh and Maharastra and obtained a doctorate in Islamic law from Bhopal. He was an important financial conduit for Ansarul Islam and small amounts were deposited in his account regularly so as not to raise any suspicion, Sarma said.

"Mustafa and Afsaruddin Bhuyan, the other arrested, can handle sophisticated communication tools. They were dealing with apps that we had not heard of. They had later dismantled the apps," Sarma said.

After Mustafa was arrested his wife broke his mobile. "But the police managed to recover the motherboard and are carrying out further investigations," he said.

Mufti established Madrasa with 43 students. The Chief Minister added that the district administration has admitted them to nearby regular schools with the help of their guardians.

With PTI inputs