Madhya Pradesh: 4 suspected JMB operatives sent to 14 days’ police custody
India Today
Four suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operatives who were allegedly preparing a remote base for sleeper cells in Bhopal have been sent to 14 days' police custody.
Four Bangladeshi nationals who were arrested in Bhopal on suspicion of being Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operatives have been sent to police custody for 14 days.
The four suspected terrorists were arrested in Bhopal by the Madhya Pradesh ATS for allegedly preparing a remote base for sleeper cells.
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.
During the raid at the suspected terrorists' hideout, police recovered a huge amount of radical literature, electronic equipment and suspicious documents.
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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.
