Sayeed Muhammad: India has arrested Mohammed Jahidul Islam, a leader of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), for his involvement in Bihar’s Bodh Gaya explosion, said the country’s National Investigation Agency (NIA).
A team of NIA arrested Jahidul, who has several alias names such as Kausar, Munna, Mizan and Boma Mizan, during a raid at his Ramanagara house near Bengaluru on Sunday, reports IANS.
“Some electronic devices and traces of explosives were seized from his house,” NIA spokesman Alok Mittal said.
Jahidul is a top leader of JMB in India and is also wanted in the 2014 Burdwan blast case and in many other cases in Bangladesh, Mittal was quoted as saying.
Jahidul is the mastermind of the Bodh Gaya blast near Kalachakra Maidan. NIA filed a first information report in the case on Feb 3.
Mustafizur Rahman alias Shahin, one his of aides, had arranged and assembled all the explosives for the incident on Jahidul’s directive, said Alok.
A bomb blast took place near Kalchakra ground in Bodh Gaya on January 19 of this year when the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama was present in town. Afterwards, a couple of crude bombs and a large quantity of explosives were also recovered from the place.
Jahidul was produced before a special NIA court in Bengaluru which sent him on a five-day remand. The arrestees will now be produced before a special NIA court in Bihar’s Patna.