Bihar (Islamist/Other Conflicts): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2002

Delayed reports said that a Maoist ‘district commander’ was arrested on January 15 from Sitamarhi in Bihar, India. News reports said that the arrested Maoist has confessed to looting guns after an attack on a police post at Pattharkor. Details of this attack were not available. Read less...

The Bihar police have launched an investigation into the procurement of a passport from Patna by Farhan Malik. The passport had helped Malik to evade the police in connection with various crimes and escape to Dubai, senior police sources indicated in Patna. Read less...

According to official sources, police have arrested 24 persons in raids launched to arrest the terrorists involved in the January 22 attack on American Centre in Kolkata. The raids were conducted in the areas of Purnea, Katihar and Kishenganj districts bordering West Bengal. A senior government official while speaking to media in Purnea on January 27 said, "We are not ruling out the possibility of terrorists connected with the Kolkata attack hiding in the area". Read less...

Police have arrested a retired police official in the Bhojpur district in connection with the issuance of a false passport to Farhan Mallick, Dubai-based Mafia Don responsible for the January 22 terrorist attack in Kolkata. Read less...

The combined police team, which has been conducting intensive raids after two Pakistani mercenaries were shot dead in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand on January 28, have arrested a person who is alleged to have made contacts in Kolkata for the terrorists, from Sherghati police station area in Gaya district, Bihar on January 30. Police sources said the arrested person, Imam, had introduced Zahid, who along with Salim was killed in the Hazaribagh encounter, to Sadaquat, who drove the motorcycle from which Zahid fired at policemen outside the American Center in Kolkata. Read less...