The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Bangladeshi national on suspicion of being a Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorist, from Subhashgram in South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal. The man’s name is Abdul Mannan. Recently, some members of the banned terror outfit JMB were caught from Haridebpur in Kolkata. As per intelligence, Abdul Mannan had contacts with JMB. Detectives interrogated Abdul and found that he had entered the country from Bangladesh two years ago. A fake Aadhaar card was found from him.
The case relates to a conspiracy of online radicalisation and recruitment of vulnerable Muslim youth by JMB/AQIS in India and Bangladesh. NIA had registered the case on 06 August 2021. Till now, five have been arrested in this case. The arrested were involved in arranging fake Indian identity documents for the terrorists of JMB who had illegally entered India.
Arrested Abdul Mannan will be produced before the NIA special court. Investigators want to know more about JMB’s Kolkata module.
Investigators want to know when Abdul Mannan joined the organization, what his work was, and where he spread his branches. Detectives want to take Abdul Mannan into their custody to know how he came to India from Bangladesh and with whose help.
On 11 July, three suspected terrorists were arrested from Haridebpur. Investigators claim the JMB has linkswith them. The STF later arrested a suspected terrorist from Barasat. Eventually, on the instructions of the Union Home Ministry, the investigation into the arrests went to the NIA. It is to be mentioned that after the arrest of three suspected JMB terrorists of Bangladesh from the Haridebpur police station area, one shocking information after another has been coming. The most shocking information is that multiple leaflets in Bengali script were found from there in which it was said that bombs should be made in the kitchens of mothers in Bengal. Three youths had rented a house in Haridebpur, South Kolkata. They had been living in that house for about a year. They changed their names and introduced themselves as Indian citizens. The work of the arrested three JMB terrorists (Kolkata JMB) was to spread jihadi ideology through social media and radicalise the Muslim youth. Multiple mobile phones were used to run campaigns by opening fake accounts under different names. Investigators also found that the SIM cards were used with fake documents. Jihadi writing was posted through Facebook from a Facebook account named Sheikh Sabbir.
