The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a suspect from West Bengal in connection with a terror conspiracy orchestrated by an offshoot of the proscribed terrorist organisation Jama’at-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), the agency said on Sunday.
Earlier, on September 29, 13 persons were arrested in the case during raids across Assam, West Bengal and Kerala in connection with the same conspiracy.
NIA investigation has revealed the involvement of the accused in a conspiracy hatched by Imam Mahmuder Kafila (IMK), an offshoot of JMB, to spread the banned outfit’s extremist ideology and expand its terrorist network in West Bengal and the north-eastern states of India. The investigation has further revealed that Imam Mahmud Habibullah, a senior member of JMB, had established IMK with the objective of promoting the banned organisation’s agenda in India,” the agency said in a statement: “The conspiracy involved the radicalisation of vulnerable youth, the propagation of extremist ideology and the recruitment of individuals into the organisation.
