‘India head’ of B’desh terror outfit JMB nabbed in Gaya

KOLKATA/GAYA: Kolkata police on Monday claimed to have arrested Taufeeq Raza alias Ejaz Ahmed (31), the India head of terror group Jammat-ul-Mujahideen

Bangladesh

(JMB) that was involved in the 2014 Khagragarh blast.

The accused, a resident of Bengal’s Birbhum district, was nabbed from Gaya in Bihar on Monday morning. Police claimed that incriminating documents and a laptop were found from his possession. Ahmed is accused in multiple cases of terror attacks, including the one at Gaya last year during the visit of the Dalai Lama. Gaya SSP

Rajiv Mishra

said: “He was produced before a Gaya court before being forwarded to West Bengal.”

After the arrest of around 15 odd JMB men in the past two years by the STF and NIA, including its original India head Kausar alias Jahidul Islam, Ahmed was tasked with thecharge of reorganizing the terror group.