NIA files charge sheet against 11 JMB terrorists in dacoity case

Eleven Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Organization terrorists have been charge-sheeted by NIA in a dacoity case in Bengaluru. The further investigation against absconding accused is continuing.

Bengaluru:National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against 11 terrorists of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in connection with dacoity cases in Bengaluru. The agency has filed the charge sheet in NIA Special Court, Bengaluru.

The charge sheet has been filed against eleven suspected militants of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Organization (JMB).

NIA in a statement on Wednesday said that JMB members committed dacoities at four places in Bengaluru for raising funds for the organisation in February-April 2020 and the cases against the said terrorists were registered by Bengaluru Police on February 27, 2018. NIA re-registered all the four cases on April 1, 2020.

During the investigation, all these accused persons were taken into police custody and were thoroughly interrogated. The investigation also revealed that Jahidul Islam alias Kausar, a Bangladeshi national, who is the main conspirator and leader of JMB, a proscribed terrorist organization, was involved in promoting the activities of JMB in India, NIA said.

Zaheedul Islam, the leader of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen-Bangladesh Organization was responsible for the expansion of the JMB in India. Zaheedul was also found guilty in the 2005 Bangladesh serial bomb blast case and Burdwan blasts.

The investigation established the broad network forged by JMB terrorists in India for committing terrorist and subversive activities by procuring arms and explosives, recruiting youth and conducting training camps, NIA stated. The further investigation against absconding accused is continuing, it said.

The agency has also detected four robbery points in Bangalore, KR Puram, Kottanur and Attibele.

With ANI inputs