A top Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorist Ibrahim Sheikh alias Lal Mohammad (30) wanted in October 2014 Burdwan blast was arrested from Jharkhand’s Pakur district, state police chief D K Pandey revealed on Sunday. A special Pakur police team nabbed Ibrahim on Saturday night when he was coming out of Tilbhitta railway station near Jharkhand-West Bengal-Bangladesh border in the district.
Police recovered a revolver, six live cartridges, four crude bombs and an electronic chip which contains JMB supplied Jehadi materials. “He was the right hand man of Sajid Sheikh, the chief of JMB operations in India. He was sharing a significant part of Sajid’s responsibility after his arrest in November 2014 in connection with Burdwan blast,” Pakur SP Anoop Birthary told TOI.
A police officer said Ibrahim used to work as chief recruiter for JMB (in Jharkhand), coordinator in West Bengal and Jharkhand and one of the key links with JMB bosses from Bangladesh. “He was working as the chief of a local madrasa Fatima-ul-Zahra at Musimnagar area of Murshidabad district in West Bengal. He has accepted that many recruits for JMB were trained and radicalized at the madarsa,” Birthary said.
Ibrahim hails from Shahebnagar village under Nabagram police station of Murshidabad district and used to frequently visit Pakur and Sahebganj districts of Jharkhand to find recruits. “He has accepted that he has so far recruited over a dozen boys from Jharkhand into JMB,” Birthary said.
The National Investigation Agency has been looking for Ibrahim after Burdwan blast after which he was on the run. NIA had in January arrested one Burdwan blast accused Rejaul Karim, 27, from a railway station in Sahebganj district on Jharkhand-West Bengal border.
An explosion had occurred in the first week of October (2014) in a house in Burdwan when two suspected terrorists were killed and a third injured. The blast had led to the revelation of an IED manufacturing unit allegedly of JMB and subsequently police recovered 39 powerful bombs from the same place. A total of 11 persons, some of whom are Bangladeshi citizens, have so far been arrested in connection with the case.
Source: Times of India
