Bihar (Islamist/Other Conflicts): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2017

A top operative of the Bangladesh-based terrorist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Mohammad Mosiuddin alias Musa has revealed that Islamic State (IS) is planning to carry out terror attacks in the eastern part of the country, Zee News reports on January 3. Mosiuddin claimed that the IS want to establish an Islamic caliphate in India.The Security Forces and the intelligence agencies are now verifying the possibility of an IS attack from the east following the interrogation of Musa. During his interrogation, Musa has made revelations that terror groups now aim at targeting foreigners at Kolkata's Mother House and lone wolf attacks on foreign tourists in Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir).The group aims to replicate in South Asia what the IS has done in the middle-east, sources said. Mosiuddin is believed to be closely linked to the mastermind of the Dhaka Bakery terror attack and this lends credibility to reports about the possibility of IS opening a new front in the East. The JMB further plans to publicise the activities of the IS in India and recruit for the group.Another aim of the group is to help spread Salafist Islam in states like Bihar and West Bengal.  Read less...

Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) operatives in Nepal had offered a flat and a luxury vehicle besides huge cash to each member of the group that was assigned to plant explosives to derail the IndoreRajendranagar Express near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh in November, 2016, Police sources said, The Telegraph reports on January 18. The revelations came to the fore during interrogation of Moti Paswan, who was arrested from East Champaran District of Bihar, close to the IndiaNepal border, on January 16. The arrest was in connection with the abortive attempt to blow up the railway tracks near Ghorasahan in East Champaran, 200km north of Patna, to derail the RaxaulSitamarhi passenger train on October 1, 2016.Moti, one of the three accused arrested in the case, had, according to the Police, revealed to his interrogators that two pressure cooker bombs were planted on the railway tracks at the behest of an India operative of the ISI, who had introduced himself as Brajesh Giri. He was offered INR 3,00,000 for carrying out the blast on the tracks on October 1, 2016. He was accompanied by Arun Ram, also called Mohan, and Deepak Ram, known as Sohan, who were subsequently killed in Nepal for their failure to accomplish the task.Moti was in constant touch with Brajesh alias Giri Baba, who was assigned to hire people from East Champaran to carry out subversive activities in India at the behest of ISI, the Pakistani spy agency.Police said that during interrogation, Moti revealed that Giri had promised to provide sufficient funds to the group to make investments in Bhojpuri movies. Giri, who acquired citizenship of Nepal, was introduced to the ISI operatives in Nepal by one Shamshul Hoda, who settled in Dubai for business purposes. Paswan stated, "I left for Nepal after the derailment of the train near Kanpur on November 20 last year. I, along with other members of the group, was supposed to get a house in Delhi where two operatives Mohammad Zubair and Ziaul were already settled". Read less...

The role of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the November 20, 2016 train disaster in Kanpur is being suspected after Bihar Police on January 17, arrested three people, Moti Paswan, Uma Shankar Patel and Mukesh Yadav, who, they claimed, were working for the Pakistani intelligence agency to target Indian railways, reports tribuneindia.com. The ISI link was being suspected after the interrogation of the trio, Police said. During interrogation, the three arrested persons provided some “positive lead” about the Indore-Patna Express derailment in Kanpur, District Superintendent of Police (SP) Jitendra Rana said.The trio was arrested from Adapur Police Station area and they allegedly confessed to having worked for a Nepalese contact suspected to be connected to the ISI to target the railways, Rana told. The three are “professional criminals” involved in more than a dozen cases. The three were paid INR 3 lakh by a Nepali man Brajesh Giri, who allegedly had connections with Shamsul Hoda of Dubai, who had links with the ISI, the SP said. The money was paid to them to plant a bomb on the railway tracks at Ghorasan in East Champaran District, bordering Nepal, on October 1, 2016 Rana said.“Fortunately, the bomb was detected with the help of villagers at Ghorasan and defused which prevented the sinister designs of the terror elements,” Rana said. The arrest of the trio came in course of an investigation in the murder of two persons of East Champaran district in Nepal on December 28 last year for failing to successfully blast the bomb on track in Ghorasan, he said. Efforts are on to arrest, in this connection, two others identified as Gajendra Sharma and Rakesh Yadav, who were “hiding” in East Champaran, he said. Read less...