New Delhi: The Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a terrorist organisation operating in Bangladesh, has been planning to carry out Jihadi activities across India by setting up a pan India network, an investigation carried out by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) reveals.
"They (JMB members) were conspiring to align with terrorist organisations to achieve their ultimate goal of establishing a Shariat-based Islamic rule in India through the pursuit of violent Jihad. The members of the terror outfit have chalked out grand plans of creating a pan-India network to pursue their objective along with their co-accused. The JAM has successfully established bases in various states including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Tripura, West Bengal and Assam," an NIA official said.
On Wednesday, NIA conducted a search operation at two locations in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the Bhopal terror funding case involving the proscribed organisation JMB. As per the NIA official, the raids were aimed at exposing further links and conspiracies of the 10 already arrested accused charge-sheeted by the NIA court in Bhopal.
Six of the arrested accused were Bangladeshi nationals and they are active JMB cadres. "They entered India illegally, without any valid documents, and acquired false/forged Indian identity documents with the help of their sympathisers in India," the NIA investigation revealed.
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Wednesday's searches on the premises of various suspects led to the seizure of several digital devices (mobile phones), SIM cards, bank passbooks, and identity documents. "The documents currently under examination pertain to suspect transactions on the transfer of funds by the accused," the NIA official said.
NIA investigation further revealed that all the 10 arrested accused were involved in influencing, radicalising and motivating vulnerable Indian Muslim youths to take up violent Jihad against the democratic system of governance in the country. "They were found circulating incriminating Jihadi literature, inflammatory videos and statements and endorsing, justifying and glorifying the terrorist act of the various banned outfit such as JMB, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban."
The NIA had on April 5, 2022, registered a case in this matter under various sections of UA(P) Act and the Foreigners Act, 1946. The case was originally registered as FIR number 13/2022 on March 14, 2022, by a special task force of Bhopal police.
