CAPTURE OF HUJI TERRORISTS WITH SMUGGLED ARMS

Najrul Islam Gharami, active member of the action squad of Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami[HUJI],was nabbed by Bangladesh police from his residence at Shimulia village of Satkhira subdivision, adjacent to Hasnabad-Taki region of Bangladesh. He was acting as a key conduit between Hasnabad and Satkhira sector of HUJI. CBI came to know the motive of smuggling of huge cache of arms and ammunition to Bangalore and Bombay by trucks carrying fish. He took active role in the bomb blast cases in Bombay, Hyderabad and Uttar Pradesh. He had smuggled illegal arms to West Bengal by way of boats across the Bangladesh Rivers.

On 15.02.08 night, the soldiers of the 6th division of Rapid Action Battalion [RAB] of Bangladesh has caught him red-handed from his village Simulia under Debhatha thana. He had with him huge cache of arms including RDX, 41 hand grenade, rifles, revolvers and large number of bullets manufactured in Pakistan. He was also involved with the heinous attack on Sheikh Hasina, Awami League President on 21st August, 2004. Intelligence Bureau sleuths reported that he used the same arms at that time also. According to CBI’s latest report: ISI engaged Tajuddin, one active member of Lasker-e-Toiba to deliver the consignment to Najrul. Tajuddin was involved in pelting grenade at Sheikh Hasina’s meeting in 2004. Tajuddin’s elder brother Abdus Salam Pintu, once a state minister of Khaleda Zia’s government was also involved in the same cases and now is languishing in jail in Bangladesh.

After the arrest of self-styled commander-in-chief of the HUJI module active in Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal, also known as Mufti Mainuddin alias Abu Jandal alias Masum Billa, CBI has come to know from the interrogation that this arms trafficking is going on for many years across the Bangldesh border at Hasnabad, Basirhat and Swarupnagar. Billa was nabbed by RAB on 14.02.08 night from his village Banirchala near Jaidebpur, Dhaka.He took active participation in Lumbini park and Bombay local train blast cases, Hyderabad Mecca Masjid and Utter Pradesh Session Judge’s court bomb blast cases also which took many innocents’ life.

sent by Prokash Das
Executive Director, East India Watch