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November - 2 
A seven-member National Investigation Agency (NIA) team, along with experts of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), raided an aluminum factory in Shantipara of Buardhaman District on November 2, reports The Times of India.Abdul Hakim, the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorist who
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A seven-member National Investigation Agency (NIA) team, along with experts of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), raided an aluminum factory in Shantipara of Buardhaman District on November 2, reports The Times of India.Abdul Hakim, the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorist who was injured in the bomb blast at Khagragarh on October 2, 2014 and presently admitted at SSKM Hospital in Kolkata, used to work in the factory. The factory is very near from the Khagragarh blast site. Hakim's wife Amina Biwi, who is in NIA custody at present, has told the investigators during interrogations that Abdul Hakim has been working at that factory for INR 100 per day remuneration. On October 1, a day before the blast, Hakim had worked there for the last time.NIA has learnt that Hakim used to regularly visit the Simulia madrasa (Islamic seminary). In the morning, Hakim used to work in the factory and at night he used to make IEDs (Improvised Explosive Device) and bullets to fool the neighbours by showing that he was working in a factory in Burdwan, his wife told NIA. With Hakim almost recovering from his splinter injury, NIA is all set to take him in their custody within the next few days.
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November - 7 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on November 7, arrested an alleged operative of the Jama’at-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Zia-ul-Haque, in connection with the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman (West Bengal) blast case, from Talha Masjid in Khagragarh area of Bardhaman District, reports Indian Expr
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on November 7, arrested an alleged operative of the Jama’at-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Zia-ul-Haque, in connection with the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman (West Bengal) blast case, from Talha Masjid in Khagragarh area of Bardhaman District, reports Indian Express. Haque, a resident of Old Gurutolla in Malda District of West Bengal, is considered to be closely associated with top JMB ‘commanders’, and absconding operatives Rezaul Karim and Yusuf Sheikh alias Moulana Yusuf. The probe allegedly revealed that Haque worked as a motivator. He used to collect jihadi videos and these clips were allegedly then shown to terror recruits at the Simulia and Mukhimnagar madrasas (Islamic seminary) in Districts of Bardhaman and Murshidabad.
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November - 9 
At least four women jihadis trained at Simulia madrasa (Islamic seminary) in Bardhaman District (West Bengal) are at large Assam, reveals Sujena Begum one of the accused in the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast, The Times of India reports on November 10. "Sujena has said during interrogation that she
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At least four women jihadis trained at Simulia madrasa (Islamic seminary) in Bardhaman District (West Bengal) are at large Assam, reveals Sujena Begum one of the accused in the October 2, 2014 Bardhaman blast, The Times of India reports on November 10. "Sujena has said during interrogation that she and at least four other women from the state have also been trained at Simulia. They all went for a three-month training programme," a source said.
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November - 13 
Government on November 13 said it was monitoring the activities of some madrasas (Islamic seminary) over suspicions that foreign teachers there were indoctrinating young students in the jihadi ideology, reports Indian Express. “We are keeping an eye on every activity,” Union Minister for Home Minist
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Government on November 13 said it was monitoring the activities of some madrasas (Islamic seminary) over suspicions that foreign teachers there were indoctrinating young students in the jihadi ideology, reports Indian Express. “We are keeping an eye on every activity,” Union Minister for Home Minister Rajnath Singh said. He was replying to a question over reports of Bangladeshi nationals teaching students at a madrasa in West Bengal’s Bardhaman District and Centre’s plans to conduct a survey to check whether foreign nationals were deployed in seminaries.
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November - 13 
National Investigation Agency (NIA) has tracked the source of funds utilised in Bardhaman (West Bengal ) blast of October 2, 2014 to sustain the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) modules in India, The Times of India reports on November 14. The agency has identified a man named Abdul Noor, suspec
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National Investigation Agency (NIA) has tracked the source of funds utilised in Bardhaman (West Bengal ) blast of October 2, 2014 to sustain the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) modules in India, The Times of India reports on November 14. The agency has identified a man named Abdul Noor, suspected to be a key operative of the outfit in Bangladesh, as the man who carried cash tranches across the border periodically. NIA has also identified a JMB operative from West Bengal who was working as a mason in Jammu and Kashmir. The man has already been interrogated by the agency. The agency has also found that not only did all members have wives who were equally involved in all terror acts but the top brass among the Indian module had more than one wife who were all engaged in terror activities. In fact, marriages were deliberately solemnised among members of the module much on the lines of Maoists. Women were, however, given training only in firing of weapons and not in making of bombs. "This is a unique development as far as jihadi terrorism in India is concerned. The JMB module in India has 50 per cent women. All have been indoctrinated, well-trained in physical combat and weapon operation and married to their jihadi colleagues," said an NIA officer.
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November - 18 
On November 18, one Pulak Sadhu (30), the owner of a house-cum-shop in Kesabganj Chati in Bardhaman District was picked up by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths for interrogations after Bardhaman blast suspect, Amjad revealed he kept the picric acid at his accommodation rented out by Pu
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On November 18, one Pulak Sadhu (30), the owner of a house-cum-shop in Kesabganj Chati in Bardhaman District was picked up by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) sleuths for interrogations after Bardhaman blast suspect, Amjad revealed he kept the picric acid at his accommodation rented out by Pulak. This place is barely one kilometre from the Khagragarh blast site. When the NIA officials grilled Pulak, he told them that after knowing that Amjad was a suspected JMB terrorist, he threw all the containers to a pond near Rabindra Bhwan in Borhat area of Bardhaman. Pulak himself accompanied the NIA officials and fishermen to the pond, where five containers of picric acid were recovered. Five more containers are missing. Amjad had earlier told NIA that there were ten containers with pricric acid at the Borhat godown.
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November - 30 
A Bangladesh delegation comprising high officials of law enforcement and intelligence agencies after a three-day visit to India on November 30 confirmed the involvement of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the October 2 Bardhaman blast in West Bengal (India), reports Dhaka Tribune. The three-
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A Bangladesh delegation comprising high officials of law enforcement and intelligence agencies after a three-day visit to India on November 30 confirmed the involvement of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the October 2 Bardhaman blast in West Bengal (India), reports Dhaka Tribune. The three-day visit of the Bangladesh delegation was aimed at investigating the involvement of JMB men in the blast and also to help the Indian intelligence agencies locate the militants believed to be hiding in India. Meanwhile, Assistant Inspector General of Police Mahfuzur Rahman, a member of Bangladesh delegation that returned on November 30 after visiting Kolkata (India) said that Law enforcers of Bangladesh and India have launched simultaneous drives in their territories to capture over a hundred operatives of JMB, reports The Daily Star. He said “The drives are being carried out following the exchange of concrete information between investigators of the two neighbors regarding operatives of the banned outfit in India and Bangladesh.”
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