About 175 terror groups active in India
IANS
The Times of India
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Mumbai - Manipur has the highest number of terror outfits,
followed by Assam and Jammu and Kashmir, according to a
list prepared by the Union Home Ministry in consultation
with state governments and intelligence agencies.
The Home Ministry is closely monitoring the activities of
nearly 175 terror organisations spread across India and
attempting to ascertain their links both within and outside
the country.
The list includes those suspected of, or indulging in
terrorist, insurgent, extremist or fanatical activities.
The majority of the outfits are centred in and active in
the northeast, according to intelligence sources.
Manipur tops the list with a whopping 39 organisations,
followed by Assam with 36 organisations that are under the
scanner of the state and central intelligence agencies.
The next is the sensitive border state of Jammu and Kashmir
with 32 such groups active, semi-active or dormant. In
addition to these, there are at least four other
independent groups that are not based in Kashmir but are
coordinating or sup****ting terror groups in the state from
across the border.
The surprise inclusion here is Dukhtaran-e-Millat, an all-
women organisation that exerts community pressures to
further social norms dictated by Islamic fundamental
groups.
Most of the groups named in the list are engaged in
secessionist activities, mostly armed and violent, either
independently or with sup****t from across the border,
mostly in regions neighbouring Pakistan and China.
A matter of concern for law-enforcing authorities is that
the list is not exhaustive and keeps growing, the sources
said.
Thirty groups belong to Tripura, followed by four in
Meghalaya, three in Nagaland, two in Mizoram and one in
Arunachal Pradesh.
This makes a total of 115 groups in seven states in the
sensitive northeast, including those bordering China.
Punjab, which witnessed heavy terrorism in the 1980s, has
at least 12 active or potentially dangerous terror groups
in the state.
Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad chief Hemant Karkare said there
are around 8-10 frontline terror groups on which they keep
tabs on a regular basis, but he declined to identify them.
"In addition, there are more than a couple of hundred other
such groups of which we have knowledge. At times, new ones
suddenly crop up, like the Hindu Garjana, which attacked
communist party workers in Pune last fortnight. Then we do
the needful investigations," Karkare told re****ters, but
did not elaborate.
In addition to these state-level groups, the agencies are
keeping tabs on the activities of the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Tamil Nadu Liberation Army, Tamil
National Retrieval Troops, Students Islamic Movement of
India (SIMI - banned since September 2001), Deendar
Anjuman, Asif Reza Commando Force, Kamatapur Liberation
Organisation and the Ranvir Sena.
Even some Nepalis in India have their own struggle group -
the Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekta Samaj - fighting for different
causes.
Left-wing extremist groups that are under a close watch
include the Communist Party of India-Maoist, Communist
Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Janashakti and People's
Guerrilla Army.
As far as Mumbai Police are concerned, they are quite
pleased with the recent successful investigations that led
to the nabbing of im****tant terror operatives who were
re****tedly targeting sensitive installations and religious
places in Mumbai.
These include terror suspects caught from Goa, Karnataka
and from Thane district, bordering Mumbai, in Maharashtra.
Last Thursday, police nabbed two prominent SIMI activists
from Mira Road (Thane), Irshad Salim Khan (37) and Israr
Ahmed Abdul Hamid Tailor (38), who may be linked to the
July 11, 2006, serial bomb explosions in Mumbai's suburban
trains.
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