Probe Agency NIA To Investigate Bangladeshi Terror Group's Bhopal Module Case

Thursday, 7 April 2022newsdesk

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will take over the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Bhopal terror module case where six men, four of them Bangladeshis and two from Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district, were arrested by the MP Police's Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS). They were allegedly trying to radicalise local youth to carry out terror activities across the country but failed to recruit anyone from Bhopal.

New Delhi, 07 April 2022

As per news report of NDTV, On March 12, four men, all Bangladeshi nationals, were arrested following raids by the ATS teams at a rented accommodation in the congested Aishbagh area of the state capital. Top police officials said accused Fazhar Ali alias Mehmood (32), Mohd Aqeel alias Ahmad (24), Zahuruddin alias Ibrahim alias Milon Pathan alias Jauhar Ali (28) and Fazhar Jainul Abdin alias Akram Al Hasan alias Hussain were part of a JMB plot to develop a sleeper cell for carrying out anti-national activities in India, including in MP, in the future. "They were trying to radicalise local youths in Jihadist ideology, to develop a remote control sleeper cell for carrying out anti-national activities in MP and other parts of the country," a senior official said.

Source - NDTV