Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh terrorists have entered West Bengal to carry out subversive activities, sources told Indrani Roy/Rediff.com, who has been tracking the terror trail from West Bengal to Dhaka.
A team of Bangladesh detectives arrived in Kolkata on Thursday, November 27, to hand over important information to the National Investigation Agency.
The Bangladesh sleuths have handed over a list with the names of more than 50 Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh terrorists, who have entered West Bengal from Bangladesh to carry out subversive activities, sources told Rediff.com
From Bengal, these terrorists may have traveled to other parts of India.
A couple of weeks ago an NIA team visited Dhaka and shared 'suspicious' mobile phone numbers with sleuths in the Bangladesh capital.
Armed with the NIA information, Bangladesh detectives arrested Fatema Akhtar, chief of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh's women unit and wife of JMB kingpin Sajeed, from the Sadarghat area of Dhaka along with three of her associates.
Fatema's husband Sajeed was arrested by the Anti-Terror Squad in Kolkata on November 8.
On the basis of the information provided by the Bangladesh sleuths, the NIA will conduct searches across Bengal and other parts of India, sources said.
The NIA is likely to interrogate Myanmarese national Khalid Mohammad who allegedly ran terror camps on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border and had connections with Pakistan's Tehrik-e-Taliban.
The Bangladesh team is led by Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioner Mohammad Monirul Islam, sources told Rediff.com
The team includes G M Azizur Rahman, additional deputy inspector general of police (special branch); Colonel Abu Hena Mostofa, director, National Security Intelligence; Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Abul Kalam Azad of the Rapid Action Battalion; Mahfuzur Rahman, additional inspector general of police (police headquarters); Mohammad Ashraful Islam, senior superintendent of police, CID, and Major Mohammad Atiqur Rahman of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.
This is the same team that NIA agents had exchanged information with during their visit to Dhaka.
Earlier in this series:
- Bangladeshi woman trained 30 terrorists in Bengal madrassa
- What went on inside Bengal's house of terror?
- Did this Bengal madrassa train terrorists?
- How Bangladeshis infiltrate into India
Representative Image: Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
