Ansarullah Bangla Team News

As many as 17 persons, including six Madarsa teachers, were held on Thursday for allegedly having links with terror groups They were detained for their alleged links with global terror outfits including Al-Qaeda in Indian Sub-continent and Bangladesh-based ABT CM Himanta Biswa Sarma, while coming down heavily on the "Jihadi modules" in the state, said that a lot of information is expected from these arrests

The NIA took over the case on March 1 in 2018 and the investigation revealed that Bangladeshi members of ABT entered India in 2016 in pursuance of the conspiracy to commit terrorist acts in India. The accused persons travelled and stayed at Hyderabad, Pune and Mumbai in the guise of labourers. The investigation also revealed that the accused tried to procure chemicals from a shop in Patna and tried to establish hide-outs in Ranchi. The accused also tried to procure arms and ammunition in Kolkata and several incriminating materials like map of Sealdah Railway Station, Howrah Bridge, literature on explosives and bomb-making, fake Aadhaar Card, fake PAN Card were reportedly seized from their possession.

Terror organisations like Ansarullah Bangla Team are always on the lookout to carry out a strike against India. 

Suspected ABT operatives arrested by Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has pointed to nefarious plans possibly being hatched.

Sahadat Hossain, 26, allegedly charged a fee of Rs 5000 to crossover India – Bangladesh border

Two suspected Bangladeshi terrorists along with an Indian arms dealer were recently arrested by the Kolkata Police.

Three persons, including two suspected members of Bangladesh-based Islamist group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), were arrested on Tuesday from the Kolkata railway station, a police officer said.

The Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Sunday arrested a Bangladeshi national from Kutesara village of Muzaffarnagar district over allegedly carrying out terror activities.

The High Court here on Sunday confirmed the death sentence for two persons and different terms in jail for six others for killing Bangladeshi blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider.

A Dhaka court on Wednesday charged five activists of a banned militant outfit for the 2015 murder of popular blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who wrote against the Jamaat-e-Islami and radical Islamists.

A Singapore court jailed four Bangladeshi men for between two and five years for terrorism financing on Tuesday in a case that has put the city-state`s most marginalized migrant-worker community in the spotlight.

Although around 90 percent of Bangladesh`s 160 million-strong population is Muslim, mostly Sunni, the nation is officially secular.

Bangladesh police have detained over 5,000 persons, including many belonging to Islamist parties, in the first two days of an ongoing week-long nationwide anti-militant crackdown which began on Friday.

Police said English professor Rezaul Karim Siddique, 58, was hacked from behind with machetes as he walked to the bus station from his home in the country`s northwestern city of Rajshahi.

 Bangladesh police have arrested three members of a banned Islamist militant group suspected to be involved with the murders of secular bloggers Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das, officials said on Friday.