JMB terror module busted in Bhopal, 4 held for preparing remote base for sleeper cells

Madhya Pradesh ATS has arrested four alleged JMB operatives on suspicion of preparing a remote base for sleeper cells for the banned terror outfit.

Madhya Pradesh ATS has arrested four Bangladeshi nationals who were allegedly involved in preparing a remote base for sleeper cells for proscribed terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

Sources in the ATS told India Today/Aaj Tak that the four suspects were part of a JMB module based in Bhopal and they were planning to carry out a major terror-related incident. All four are active operatives of the terror outfit, sources said.

During the raid at the suspected terrorists' hideout, police recovered a huge amount of radical literature, electronic equipment and suspicious documents. The arrested men have been identified as Fazhar Ali alias Mehmood (32), Mohd Aqeel alias Ahmed (24), Zahooruddin alias Ibrahim alias Milon Pathan alias Jauhar Ali (28) and Fazhar Zainul Abdeen alias Akram Al Hasan alias Hussain.

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The JMB, which carried out a terror attack at a popular cafe in Bangladesh’s Dhaka in 2016 in which 22 people were killed, is trying to lay its roots in India now. In 2014, the terror group carried out bomb blasts in Bardhaman, West Bengal, in which two people were killed; followed by another attack in Bodh Gaya in 2018.

The next year, the Indian government banned JMB under the UAPA in light of the terror incidents carried out by it.

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