Pakistan links of one of the three Indian associates of Bangladesh-based Islamic fundamentalist group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh(JMB), who were arrested by the Special Task Force(STF) of West Bengal Police earlier, are being probed.
Sources said coded encrypted messages recovered from the mobile phones of Azmal Hossain and Saheb Ali Khan, who were arrested from Birbhum district earlier this month, show their links only with associates of Bangladesh-based various Islamic fundamentalist outfits, namely JMB, Hizb-ut-Tahrir(HUT) and Ansarullah Bangla Team(ABT).
However, the sources added that similar encrypted messages recovered from the mobile phones of the third arrested local associate of JMB, Abbasuddin Molla, show his regular communication with some individuals based out of Pakistan as well as with those associated with the Jammu and Kashmir-based fundamentalist group ‘Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind’.
Abbasuddin Molla was arrested from Pturi village in Diamond Harbour area in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, just a day after two others were held from Birbhum district. The investigating officials are currently interrogating the trio to get details of their recruits for the sleeper cells of JMB in the state.
Recently, the Union Home Ministry received information from intelligence agencies about the alleged role of illegal Bangladeshi intruders behind the anti-Hindu violence in the Muslim-majority Murshidabad district. The names of JMB, HUT and ABT were in that report.
However, considering the geographical locations of the pockets where the tensions and the violence had been maximum this time, especially Samserganj, the possibility of ABT playing some role behind the latest violence sounded more logical. On the eastern side of the international borders at Samserganj and Dhuliyan of Murshidabad district, is the Bangladeshi district of Chapai-Nawabganj, which is considered the stronghold of ABT. So, the chances of ABT’s involvement in the recent anti-Hindu violence at Murshidabad are most likely.
