FBI to interrogate ISIS-JMB operative Musa

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Dec 08 2016 | 6:57 PM IST
The Federal Bureau of Investigation of the USA is set to interrogate arrested ISIS and JMB terrorist Mohammed Musiruddin alias Musa, an NIA official said here today.
The FBI team has already arrived in the city and is scheduled to grill Musiruddin from tonight, the official confirmed on condition of anonymity.
A city court today granted the NIA custody of Musa, who was in judicial custody for two days.
The official said the NIA, having entered the concluding part of their probe, was on the verge of filing a chargesheet in the case.
The West Bengal CID had arrested Musa from Viswabharati Fast Passenger train at Burdwan station in July this year.
According to CID, Musa, a resident of Labhpur in West Bengal's Birbhum district, has links to terror groups Islamic State (ISIS) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Musa during interrogation had allegedly admitted to having links with top ISIS leaders and the JMB through e-mails, social networking sites and mobile calls.
During a joint interrogation by the CID, NIA and IB, Musiruddin had reportedly admitted to his connection to Amjad Sheikh, an alleged key member of the JMB, arrested in 2014 in connection with the Khagragarh twin blast case.
A sharp weapon and an air gun were seized from Musiruddin after he was arrested by the Burdwan railway police and the state police on inputs from the NIA.
CID sources said the NIA sleuths had been keeping an eye on Musiruddin for quite some time. The suspected terrorist was residing at Tamil Nadu's Tiruppur district.
Sleuths were of the opinion that Musa was most likely a part of the terrorist attack in Dhaka's Holey Artisan Bakery restaurant in July this year.
Burdwan district entered the terror map in October, 2014 when two suspected JMB terrorists were killed while making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at a rented house in Khagragarh locality of Burdwan.
The NIA arrested a mechanical engineering student on suspicion of being a terrorist from Durgapur in March, this year. Another person, suspected to be a Bangladeshi militant, was also arrested from Asansol later.

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First Published: Dec 08 2016 | 6:57 PM IST

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