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Burdwan blast: Dhaka police arrest two key JMB members

Author: Dwaipayan Ghosh
Publication:  The Times of India
Date: December 26, 2014
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Burdwan-blast-Dhaka-police-arrest-two-key-JMB-members/articleshow/45644667.cms

Dhaka Metropolitan police on Wednesday arrested two Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members who were key persons of the terrorist outfit's Indian module since 2009.

 The two, who have been held following a tip off by Indian security agencies, have been identified as Saidur Rehman (48) and Abul Salek (25).

 Rehman flaunted before the Dhaka police his "strong links" with the ruling party of Bengal — Trinamool Congress — while Salek posed himself as a farmer based in Bongaon in North 24-Parganas of Bengal.

Salek is the brother of Tariqul Islam Sumon, a top JMB member who is responsible for the Burdwan blast.

 Sources said the duo played a major role in the JMB's Indian chapter since 2009.

 While Rehman acted as a liaison officer for those JMB terrorists seeking to enter Bengal, Salek was given the task to ensure that the wives and children of these JMB operatives "safely" crossed the border between West Bengal and Bangladesh whenever they needed to seek a safe hideout.

Rehman was the second-rung leader of the JMB who was directly in touch with the top bosses. Deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan police Masudur Rahman said that a special team of the police and the bomb disposal squad led by assistant commissioner Rahmatullah Chowdhury conducted a raid on a house on Saat Masjid Road of Dhanmondi area in the Bangladeshi capital and made the arrests.

 "Bomb making manuals were recovered from the possession of arrestees," said the deputy police commissioner, adding that information would shortly be sent to the National Investigation Agency in New Delhi to verify the statement of the arrested duo on their activities in India. "On Wednesday, police carried out the drive based on information from the National Investigation Agency of India after the Burdwan blast," he said, adding that the arrest of the duo was just a beginning of events that were yet to be unfolded.

    
During its visit to Bangladesh earlier this year, an NIA team had given 10 to 15 mobile phone numbers and a few names to Bangladeshi security agencies and asked them whether they knew anything about them.
 
 
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