Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh terrorist nabbed by NIA from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas


The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday said that the agency has arrested a Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorist from West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Tuesday
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As per sources, the terrorist, whose name has not been revealed yet, is known to be a close associate of the four JMB terrorists arrested from West Bengal in July this year.

It is suspected that the terrorist may have links with Al Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI) and was setting up terror modules in West Bengal, as per sources. In the past few years, a number of JMB operatives, including Indians, were arrested in West Bengal.

As per NIA's 2019 statement, the JMB which carried out a terror attack at a popular cafe in Dhaka in 2016 in which 22 people, including 17 foreigners, were killed, is trying to spread its tentacles in India.

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