Terror group using dark web to communicate in Assam: Police

The Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a global terror group, was using the dark web for peer-to-peer communication within its network to further its activities in Assam, the police said.

Thus, it was taking them more than the usual time to unearth the network’s modus operandi.

The revelation came consequent to the arrest of a 22-year-old woman from western Assam’s Dhubri district, the police said. The woman, Jahura Khatun, is the wife of Abu Taleb, a member of the ABT, who was absconding since the police launched a crackdown against the group’s terror modules. Khatun was arrested on Sunday from the Naeragla Part II village of Dhubri, which shares a border with Bangladesh.