NIA interrogates JMB operative held in Tripura

AGARTALA: A two-member team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrived here on Wednesday night to interrogate Nazir Sheikh (25), a resident of Murshidabad district of West Bengal, who was arrested from the AD Nagar area of the city recently for his links with the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB).
According to reports, Nazir was trying to expand JMB activities in the state in the guise of a construction worker.The NIA team, after interrogating him, got details of his network in West Bengal. They would seek his transit remand for taking him to Bengal.
On Wednesday, a local court had sent Nazir to 12-day police remand for interrogation. Nazir has already admitted to receiving training in handling IEDs in a bordering town of Tamil Nadu and influencing jehadi activities after the 2005 serial blasts in Bangladesh. He was also involved in planting IEDs in Bodh Gaya during the Dalali Lama visit last year, said police.
After his higher secondary exam in 2012, Nazir came into contact with JMB frontliner Ashif and has been actively working for the outfit since then. He has visited JMB network camps at Goalpara and Silchar in Assam, Chennai and Bangaluru, police said.
During interrogation, the police officers received several vital inputs from Nazir and recovered some incriminating documents from his possession. Police indicated that Nazir arrived here with a specific mission ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.