The Special Task Force (STF) of the Assam Police arrested an alleged operative of the Pakistan-based Shahzad Bhatti Network (SBN) in Hailakandi district on Wednesday, officials said.
The arrest followed the apprehension of three other alleged operatives from Dhubri, Chirang and Barpeta districts on 25 July.
Acting on leads from the earlier arrests and subsequent investigation, the STF, in a joint operation with Hailakandi Police, arrested the 21-year-old suspect from the Ramnathpur area, officials said.
Several documents were seized from his possession during the operation, which is a part of the STF’s “sustained investigation and action against extremist and anti-national networks and their operatives”, an official said.
According to a government statement, the Shahzad Bhatti Network is a Pakistan-based terror syndicate linked to grenade, IED and petrol bomb attacks and targeted killings across India.
The SBN has also been paying local conduits to recce police, defence and religious sites, and to install CCTV cameras for espionage, it said.
(With inputs from PTI)
