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JMB's terror plot reaches Jharkhand

B'desh jihadi group had imparted training to 150 Sahibganj youths: NIA

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The latest investigations by the NIA in the still unravelling Burdwan terror conspiracy have now also plotted Sahibganj in Jharkhand on JMB's (Jammat-ul-Mujahideen of Bangladesh) terror map.

Highly placed sources in NIA said that the banned terror outfit of JMB had successfully imparted jihadi and terror training to at least 110-150 youths, including a large number of females, in four madrasas, including two madrasas of Sahibganj.

Situated close to the Ganges, Sahibganj, is about 280km from Burdwan in West Bengal where an accidental blast at a bomb-making factory had led disclosure of JMB's terror activities.

It is surrounded in the east by Maldah and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal that are also in the eye of the current terror storm after NIA found Lalgola madarsa in Mukimnagar of Murshidabad involved in imparting terror training to gullible youth like in the case of Simulia madarsa of Burdwan.

The latest details have made the agencies wary of JMB's possible link ups with the Indian Mujahideen's (IM) remnant sleeper cells that continue to function after Indian security agencies managed to nab several of its top leaders.

The revelation has also made the NIA and other agencies cautious about the possibility of terror attacks during the upcoming polls in Jharkhand as the youth that got jihadi and terror training in two madarsas of Sahibganj are still to be tracked.

Investigating officers concede that the work before them to tie all the ends of Burdwan terror conspiracy has become enormous now and it may take several months to get the real picture of the network that the JMB has spread in the entire region from West Bengal to Assam to Jharkhand.

To unearth the entire conspiracy plot a four-member NIA team led by IG (Investigations) Sanjeev Kumar Singh will head for Dhaka on November 17.

The NIA team is expected to seek details about JMB's network in Bangladesh and also request for permission to interrogate Sajid's brother and also two other cadres of the terror outfit — Asif Adnan and Fazle Elahi Tanjil who were arrested from Segunbagicha area of Dhaka in September, sources said.

Sajid, a Bangladeshi national and touted as the JMB's chief of operations for India, was nabbed by the NIA and West Bengal police last week.

The NIA team will be taking a detailed dossier of the probe done so far to share with Bangladesh and work with its agencies to unearth JMB's bigger plot to establish an Islamic state based on strict principles of Sharia that would include at least three districts of West Bengal.

The two governments are expected to work in unison to crackdown on JMB which is understood to have established links not only with rogue elements in Pakistan's espionage agency ISI but also with IM and al Qaeda.

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