NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday arrested one more accused from West Bengal in connection with a terror conspiracy orchestrated by an offshoot of terrorist organisation Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).According to NIA, the accused was part of the conspiracy by JMB arm Imam Mahmuder Kafila (IMK) to expand its activities in India through clandestine meetings, religious indoctrination programmes, circulation of extremist literature and misuse of digital platforms, including Telegram, for radicalisation and dissemination of anti-India propaganda. They also sought to promote allegiance to the leadership of IMK/JMB and strengthen the organisation’s network in India.Several digital devices, including mobile phones and memory cards, were seized from the possession of the accused arrested on Saturday.As many as 13 accused persons were arrested on Sept 29 following searches conducted at 16 locations across Assam, West Bengal and Kerala in connection with the same conspiracy. Earlier on June 25, NIA had filed a chargesheet against 11 accused persons before the NIA Special Court, Guwahati (Assam), under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and the UA (P) Act, 1967.
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NIA investigation has revealed the involvement of the accused in a conspiracy hatched by IMK to spread the banned outfit’s extremist ideology and expand its terrorist network in West Bengal and the north-eastern states of India. The conspiracy involved the radicalisation of vulnerable youth, the propagation of extremist ideology and the recruitment of individuals into the organisation.The investigation has further revealed that Imam Mahmud Habibullah, a senior member of JMB, had established IMK with the objective of promoting the banned organisation’s agenda in India.