The investigators were examining if the six arrested operatives had any role to play in the Dhaka attack.
Bangladesh’s elite anti-terror agency RAB arrived in India on Saturday morning to question Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh (JMB) operatives that were arrested in India’s eastern state of West Bengal.
A team of two investigators reached the National Investigation Agency (NIA) office and questioned the six JMB operatives, who were arrested by the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police last month.
The team questioned and examined them to find out if they played any role in the attack at Dhaka’s high security zone, Gulshan. The agency will also explore their links with the Islamic State, if any.
Currently, the six are under NIA custody and the agency is also examining them for their role in the October 2, 2014, Burdwan blast case in West Bengal. The six arrested include JMB’s Bengal unit chief, Inam alias Anwar Hussain, Maulana Yusuf, chief motivator of JMB across Madrasas in Bengal. Sahidul Islam, chief of the JMB in the North-eastern region. Md. Rubel alias Rafique is a resident of Jamalpur, Bangladesh and an expert in IEDs. Md. Abul Kalam was also an expert in IEDs and used to assist another operative, Sahidul. Jabirul Islam alias Jahidul Islam is a Bangladeshi national, who had entered India without any valid passport or visa.
The six JMB operatives were arrested by the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police from West Bengal and several other eastern Indian states. Of the six, three are Bangladeshi nationals and three are Indian nationals of Bangladeshi origin. The arrested were running JMB sleeper cells and their modules were active in eastern and north-eastern India and were plotting a terror attack in the eastern region of India.
Sources in the investigating agency highlight that these operatives were controlled and handled by JMB's Majlish-e-Shura, think-tank, in charge of India, Salahuddin.
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