Police Bust Bihar 'Terror Module': 2 Held, 'Make India Islamic' Document Found

Meanwhile, the BJP slammed a senior Bihar police official for drawing comparisons between the RSS and the PFI.

Mohammed Jallauddin and Athar Parvez were arrested by the Bihar Police on Wednesday, 13 July.

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Bihar Police claimed on Thursday, 14 July to have busted a terror module in the state after arresting two people, including a retired Jharkhand police official, allegedly associated with Islamic extremist organisation, the Popular Front of India (PFI).

Further, a document had been obtained from the accused persons called 'Mission 2047,' which allegedly speaks about making India an Islamic country by the year 2047.

The arrested persons were identified as Mohammad Jallauddin and Athar Parvez. While Jallaluddin is a former police officer, Parvez is the brother of an accused in the 2013 Gandhi Maidan blast in Patna, the police said.

"(The accused) have links with PFI. Jallauddin was earlier associated with Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI)," Phulwari Sharif Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Manish Kumar stated.

The police also added that, under the pretext of running an NGO, the duo were involved in training people in martial arts, including the use of swords and knives, and terror activities.

"For the past two months, the accused had people from other states coming in. Those coming were changing their names while booking tickets and while staying in hotels," it added.

Additionally, as per the police, the accused persons were not connected with any Pakistan-based organisation and their activities were not linked to former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma, whose offensive remarks against Prophet Muhammad had triggered a massive row.

Kumar also read out an excerpt from the eight-page long document titled 'Mission 2047': "PFI confident that even if 10 per cent of total Muslim population rally behind it, PFI would subjugate coward majority community and bring back the glory."

BJP Slams Bihar SSP for Comparing RSS With PFI

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expressed dismay on Thursday over a statement by a senior Bihar police official in which he drew comparisons between the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the PFI.

"Like there are shakhas and training for using lathis by the RSS, similarly under the guise of physical education PFI were calling the youth to their center and promoting their ideology and attempting to brainwash them," Patna Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manavjeet Singh Dhillon said while speaking on the alleged terror module.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi slammed the official and said that he must withdraw his "condemnable" statements.

"It is highly condemnable and ignorant to compare a patriotic organisation like RSS with this banned organisation after the arrest of suspected terrorists of PFI involved in a conspiracy to make secular India an Islamic country," the deputy CM said on Twitter.

A BJP MLA named Haribhushan Thakur Bachaul also demanded an apology from the police official in this regard and said that if he refused to issue one, then an investigation should be initiated against him.