Bangladesh’s wanted terror duo launches JMB’s Indian chapter
KOLKATA: THE TERRORISTS SAID THEIR AIM IS TO ENSURE THAT INDIANS PLAY KEY ROLE IN FOUNDATION OF THE NEXT CALIPHATE
Bangladesh’s mostwanted terror duo, Salahuddin Salehin and Jahidul Islam alias Bomaru Mizan, who have rewards declared by both India and Bangladesh authorities for information on them, have founded an India chapter of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an outfit banned by India’s eastern neighbour.
The new chapter is named Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen India (JMI).
According to an interview that Salehin gave to its media wing Sahm Al Hind, he has been described as amir (chief) of JMB. Bomaru Mizan, known in India as Kausar, is his close associate.
“We are working to ensure that Hindustan, too, turns into a centre for Hijrat (migration for religious battle) and Jihad, so that we, as the people of India, can play a major role in the foundation of the next caliphate,” Salehin said in the interview that is being circulated online.
“The reason I am giving this interview is that we have been able to manage to build the organisation afresh to a certain extent,” he added.
Muralidhar Sharma, deputy commissioner of police heading the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police - which recently nabbed six alleged JMB operatives - said that he was unaware of Salehin’s interview.
“We started from Bangladesh but have now spread. Jamaat-ulMujahideen India is an example. Work is progressing elsewhere as well,” Salehin added.
Officers of Kolkata Police STF, who arrested five JMB elements for alleged connection with the January 19 Bodh Gaya blast, is quizzing them to obtain information about Salehin and Mizan.
A senior leader of JMB right since its foundation, Salehin criticised the Islamic State , making it clear that he follows Al Qaeda, JMB’s original ‘role model’.
In the interview he also spoke of Ghzwat ul Hind, which means the conquest of India.
In February 2014, Salehin, 41, and Mizan, 38, were ‘freed’ during an ambush on a prison van carrying them at Trishal in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh. They await death sentence in Bangladesh and are believed to be hiding in India since their escape, according to an officer working with a central intelligence agency who did not wish to be identified.
Both Salehinn and Mizan are also named in Khagragarh blast in Burdwan district of West Bengal that exposed a flourishing JMB network in India according to investigation by the NIA.
NIA declared rewards of ₹5 lakh for credible information leading to each. Bangladesh’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit (CCTU) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police also announced rewards of 5 lakh Bangladeshi Taka on both.
Salehin is also known by the aliases of Sunny, Hafizur Rehman Sheikh and Mahin. He hails from Narayanganj district of Bangladesh.
In India, his address till the Khagragarh blast was Nimra village of West Bengal. Mizan hails from Jamalpur district’s Khalifapara, the native village of JMB’s chief Sheikh Abdur Rehman.