Kolkata: National Investigation Agency sleuths have arrested a suspected terrorist of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh from West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, an official said on Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of NIA personnel conducted a search operation in the Subhasgram area on Tuesday and apprehended the Bangladeshi national, he said.
“Fake voter and Aadhaar cards have been seized from his possession. He is being interrogated. We are trying to find out how and when he entered into India,” the official stated. Several documents related to the terror group were seized from his possession, he added. 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. A number of JMB operatives, including Indians, were arrested in West Bengal in the past few years. 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.