Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Nov 23: National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials, on Friday November 22, escorted suspected terrorist Farhan, owing allegiance to Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), to the paying guest accommodation in which he was living at Soladevanahalli in the outskirts of the city in the guise of a student.

They got inquest done through him by asking him to identify places and things. NIA had in the past noticed that JMB from Bangladesh, a terrorist organization, was trying to get deep-rooted in the city and that terrorists deputed by this organization were fanning out in the guise of Bangla immigrants. NIA had taken Farhan into custody from Meghalaya, and during his interrogation, came to know about his links with the city.

When interrogated by NIA officials from Kolkata, Farhan had told him that he was residing in the city in the guise of a student. He had introduced himself as a student and had taken a paying guest accommodation at Soladevanahalli. NIA team brought Farhan to the said accommodation and questioned him on various aspects. It is learnt that the NIA is also trying to find out information about other hideouts of terrorists in the city.

Farhan, it is gathered, happens to be a member of Ansuralla organization based in Bangladesh. NIA had made public about the JMB organization and its network last month. They had listed out names of 125 suspected terrorists believed to have spread out in states like Karnataka, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Bihar and Kerala among others. It had revealed that they are in the guise of Bangladeshi immigrants.

The main grouse of JMB terrorists is the alleged atrocity on Rohingya Muslims at Myanmar by Buddhists there. Their main targets therefore are those who follow Buddhism. They have reportedly planned to target Buddhists and their places of prayer in south India. It is said that they succeeded in creating over 20 hideouts in the city since 2014, and NIA officials have said that they had conducted trial of rocket launchers at Krishnagiri located on Karnataka - Tamil Nadu border. There is also information that another Bangladeshi terror group, Ansurulla Bangla Team, has been spreading its wings in the country of late.