NIA finds laptop at the instance of arrested key JMB operative

National Investigation Agency (NIA) has recovered a laptop at the instance of Nurul Hoque, alleged to be key a conspirator in many activities of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror outfit, who was arrested last week.

Official sources said that during his custodial interrogation, Hoque, who was known as 'Naem' to the authorities, took the NIA sleuths to a hideout in Murshidabad district of West Bengal and handed over a laptop which was allegedly handed over to him by Sheikh Rahamatullah alias Sajid, a Bangladeshi national already arrested in this case.

On October two last year, a blast had taken place inside a house at Khagragarh in which one person Sakil Gazi died on the spot and another person Sovan Mandal succumbed in hospital. Both of them were suspected to have terror links.

NIA later found that the actual identity of Mondal was Karim Sheikh and he had misled West Bengal police about his identity.

The sources said the laptop's initial examination showed a list of people who had given donations to the organisation besides the amount collected through charity.

NIA has already filed a charge sheet against 21 people for allegedly conspiring to topple Sheikh Hasina's government in Bangladesh and replacing it with a government based on Sharia rule.

Hoque, 26, a resident of Bakshipur of Murshidabad district, carried a cash reward of Rs one lakh on his head.

NIA knew about Hoque's name as 'Naeem' who was an active member of JMB and operational in Birbhum district of West Bengal in close association with Rahamatullah, Faijul Hoque, (arrested) and Talha Sheikh, a Bangladeshi national who is absconding.

NIA alleged that Hoque underwent training at Mukimnagar Madarsa in Murshidabad and Shimulia Madarsa in Burdwan district on two occasions at least.

He is said to have been elevated to the position of a 'trainer' and he had provided training in arms firing, explosives handling and self-defence techniques in terror training camps of JMB at Shantipally in Birbhum as well as Simulia and Mukimnagar Madrasa, NIA claimed.

It is alleged by NIA that he also doubled up as a "motivator in radicalisation camps where he used to show video clips of Jehadi orientation on a laptop to JMB new recruits and thereafter urged them to join the Jihadi movement with JMB and take revenge for atrocities on Muslims worldwide."