Bangladeshi terror group JMB spreading tentacles in India: NIA chief

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday said Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is trying to spread its tentacles across India. Director General of National Investigation Agency (NIA) YC Modi stated that the anti-probe terror agency had shared a list of 125 suspects from different states.

Addressing a meeting of chiefs of the Anti-Terrorism Squads (ATS) and Special Task Force (STF), YC Modi said the JMB has spread its activities in states like Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Bihar in the guise of Bangladeshi immigrants.

JMB has figured as one of the main challenges for state agencies, according to NIA. The NIA has shared with states concerned a list of 125 suspected activists who have close links with the JMB leadership.

Making a presentation before the top chiefs, Inspector General (IG) of the NIA Alok Mittal elaborated that from 2014-2018, the JMB has set up 20-22 hideouts in Bangalore and tried to spread its bases in South India.

The JMB even conducted a trial of rocket launchers in the Krishnagiri hills along the Karnataka border. Mittal said, "The JMB was keen to attack Buddhists temples to take revenge for the plight of Rohingiya Muslims in Myanmar."

The two-day event will see discussions over J&K terror funding, militancy in J&K, Punjab and North East and jihadi groups and radicalisation in various parts of the country. Mittal further said several hideouts had been busted in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Bihar.

NIA has said that there was a plan to form India-based are of the Jamat ul Mujhahideen in 2017.

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