Another Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant arrested

Kolkata: The Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police arrested an operative of terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) who allegedly got training under Kausar, one of the key accused in Burdwan’s Khagragarh blast case of 2014, an officer said here on Tuesday.

“Asif Iqbal alias Nadeem (22), an active JMB member since 2017, was arrested from Kolkata’s Santragachi railway station at 6.20 p.m. on Monday. He was produced today (Tuesday) before the court, which remanded him to 15-day police custody till March 5,” an STF officer said. According to the STF, he was part of the conspiracy hatched to secure Kausar’s escape on the way from court to the Presidency Correctional Home. (IANS)

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