Guwahati:: An employee of Gauhati University has been arrested for allegedly collaborating with Islamist terrorist groups, an official said on Monday.
Abul Hussain, a clerk in the university accounts department, was under surveillance by central intelligence agencies for quite some time on suspicion of his alleged links with terrorist and religious fundamentalist groups.
"Hussain was formally arrested over the weekend and investigations are on in full swing," the police official said.
Police are probing his possible links with groups like the Lashker-e-Toiba, Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami, and Jamat-ul-Mujaheeden.
"His residence in Guwahati was probably used as a meeting point for members of some of these groups," the official said.
According to police reports, Hussain had recently met with leaders and members of some radical Islamist groups from Bangladesh during his trip to his ancestral home in southern Assam's Karimganj district.
Meanwhile, the Assam government has sounded a maximum alert following reports that Islamist fundamentalist groups were planning to stage terror strikes in the state.
Last week, the Assam police had arrested six people, including a Muslim cleric, on charges of having links with religious fundamentalist groups.
"Security forces have been placed in a state of high alert with intelligence inputs indicating some strikes by religious fundamentalist groups with terrorist links," Assam police intelligence chief Khagen Sharma, said.
Police, army, and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in strength to guard vital installations like railway stations, bus terminus, and crowded marketplaces, besides oil and gas facilities.
"The main worry or fear is to protect the Guwahati railway station and other busy areas, including the state assembly complex," a city police official said.
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