Wanted Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh terrorist Abdul Karim nabbed by Kolkata Police STF

In a successful capture, the Kolkata Police's Special Task Force on Friday nabbed Bangladesh-based terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh’s (JMB) top operative Abdul Karim.

Also known as Boro Karim, he is next only to Salauddin Salehin in Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh’s terror network in India.

Karim was arrested from Jangipuar in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal with the assistance of local police.

Wanted by Bangladeshi authorities, the National Investing Agency and the West Bengal Police, Karim will be produced before a local court on Friday during which the police will seek his custody for interrogation.

Karim is also said to be the main leader of the Dhuliyan module and would actively supply logistics and support, shelter to top leaders like Salauddin. His name came up as the top operative by JMB terrorists during their interrogation.

In 2018, a raid was conducted at his residence and a substantial amount of explosives and jihadi material was seized. However, he managed to escape.

JMB is allegedly involved in several terrorist attacks in the country including blasts in Bihar's Gaya and Burdwan in West Bengal.

The NIA had collected credible evidence suggesting that JMB was responsible for the 2104 Burdwan bomb blast in which two suspected terrorists were killed, and for series of bomb blasts in Gaya in 2013 in which several monks and visitors were injured.

A Home Ministry report had stated that it had received “some inputs of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh using some madrassas in Burdwan and Murshidabad for radicalisation and recruitment activities.”