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6 JMB operatives arrested from Bengal, Assam

Sep 27, 2016 05:54 AM IST

KOLKATA: In a major breakthrough in the 2014 Khagragarh blast case, the Special Task Force of Kolkata police arrested six Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (Bangladesh) terrorists from Assam and West Bengal. Among the six arrested, five are named in the chargesheet filed by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in the Khagragarh blast case.

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Three of those arrested are Indians, while others are Bangladeshi nationals. “Sizeable quantities of explosive material, detonators and improvised explosive devices (IED) were recovered from the accused. We also seized fake Indian and Bangladesh i currency and mobile sand laptops from them,” said Kolkata police’s joint commissioner( crime) VishalGarg.

With the arrests, only three of the 29 named in the K hag rag a rh blast case now remain absconding. “The terrorists were planning to carry out immediate attacks in the North-East and southern India. However, their primary aim is to overthrow the democratic ally elected Bangladesh government. They were absconding since the blast in 2014,” said a Special Task Force (STF) sleuth.

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