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Guwahati/National Desk: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has struck another major blow on the module of the banned terrorist organization Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which is plotting against India. The NIA has filed a comprehensive charge sheet against 11 alleged terrorists associated with JMB in the special court in Guwahati. A case has been registered against all these accused under various serious sections of the Indian Judicial Code (BNS 2023) and UA(P) Act 1967 (UAPA).
Bloody conspiracy was being hatched through ‘Imam Mahmudar Kafeela’ wing
The NIA investigation has made a shocking revelation that all these 11 accused had played an active role in ‘Imam Mahmooder Kafeela’ (IMK), a secret wing of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen. These accused were engaged in organizing secret meetings within the country, religiously misleading (radicalizing) the youth, distributing extremist literature and spreading poisonous anti-India propaganda through social media and digital platforms. According to the investigating agency, their main objective was to spread unrest in the northeastern states (Assam, Tripura etc.) and to carry out major terrorist attacks in densely populated states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.
JMB’s aim is to destroy democracy and bring Sharia rule.
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is a highly fundamentalist organization, completely influenced by Salafi ideology. Its main objective is to uproot the democratic and secular system in Bangladesh and its surrounding areas and establish Shariat-based Islamic rule. It was founded by notorious terrorists Sheikh Abdur Rehman and Siddiqul Islam. Siddiquil Islam was also known as ‘Bangla Bhai’ in terrorist circles. JMB started targeting NGOs and ordinary citizens since its inception, due to which the Bangladesh government banned it completely in February 2005.
500 bomb blasts in half an hour: When entire Bangladesh was shaken
Just six months after the ban, what this organization did shocked the entire world. On August 17, 2005, JMB, with the help of another fundamentalist organization ‘Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami’, carried out a series of simultaneous bomb blasts in 63 out of 64 districts of Bangladesh. Within just 30 minutes, more than 500 bombs were exploded across the country. The main objective of these blasts was to forcibly implement Sharia law by eliminating the judges, lawyers and judicial system of the country. Later in the year 2006, Siddikul Islam alias Bangla Bhai was arrested by the police and after legal process, he was hanged in 2007.
Siddiquil Islam entered India in 2005, network spread from Bengal
While wreaking havoc in Bangladesh, JMB started expanding its presence in India. In 2005, Siddiqul Islam entered India and along with ‘Hatkata Naseerullah’ (a dreaded IED bomb expert) raised the first Indian unit (65th Unit) of JMB in Murshidabad, West Bengal. After this the network spread rapidly in border districts like Nadia, Birbhum and Burdwan.
The biggest expose of this Indian network happened in the year 2014, when there was a sudden explosion while making a bomb inside a house in Burdwan (Khagragarh), West Bengal, in which two terrorists were killed. NIA investigation revealed that JMB had spread a huge network of its sleeper cells and modules through Bengal to Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh.
ISIS links and ‘Neo-JMB’ connection to Dhaka cafe attack
According to reports of international security agencies, JMB has links with global terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Al-Qaeda and SIMI. In recent years, a new faction has emerged within the organization, called ‘Neo-JMB’. This faction follows the ideology of the infamous global terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS). The group is notorious for ‘lone-wolf’ attacks and suicide attacks. In 2016, the horrific terrorist attack on ‘Holi Artisan Cafe’ located in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in which many foreign nationals were brutally murdered, was carried out by this Neo-JMB group.
Robbery, smuggling and hawala: Know where terror funds come from?
According to NIA investigation, JMB mainly raises funds through illegal routes to carry out its terrorist activities in India and Bangladesh. Its major sources of funds include:
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Dacoity, looting and extortion in border areas.
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Smuggling of arms, narcotics and cattle along the India-Bangladesh border.
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Fake Indian currency business.
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Secret financial help received from the Hawala network through supporters sitting in Gulf countries and abroad.
JMB is completely banned in India, security agencies on alert
After JMB’s direct involvement was revealed in the 2014 Burdwan blasts and the 2018 Bodhgaya bomb blasts in Bihar, the Government of India completely banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and all its incarnations (including Neo-JMB) as terrorist organizations under the UAPA on 23 May 2019. At present, NIA, Uttar Pradesh ATS, and STFs of various states are continuously conducting crackdown operations to destroy its remaining sleeper cells, online handlers and funding networks. This new charge sheet filed in Guwahati court is part of this tough attack.
