Assam Police STF arrests 2 ABT operatives
The Special Task Force (STF) of Assam Police has arrested two more operatives of the Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), a militant group associated with Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
A 22-year-old woman domestic help was arrested on Wednesday from a slum colony in Bhubaneswar on the charge of stealing jewelries and valuables worth around Rs one crore from a household in the National Capital Region (NCR).
The accused was nabbed from Salia Sahi slums in a joint operation with Delhi’s Mehrauli police. Her mobile phone location was tracked at her house. Later she was apprehended in a swift operation, said Inspector Capital Police Station, Girija Chakraborty.
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The woman identified as Sujata Mohapatra worked as a maid at a businessman’s house in the Dwarka area under the Mehrauli Police Station limits in Delhi. The articles that were stolen by the accused included among other things gold and diamond ornaments.
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The accused had allegedly decamped with gold and diamonds jewellery worth around Rs one crore recently when the family members of the employer had gone outstation.
A local court here later allowed the Mehrauli police to take her on transit remand, police added.
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