West Bengal (Islamist/Other Conflicts): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2004

A Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) terrorist was reportedly shot dead during an encounter with the police in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district on January 2. Read less...

Kolkata police have reportedly disclosed links between the terrorist outfits active in the northeast region such as the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the Meghalaya-based Achik National Volunteer Front (ANVF) with the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JuM), a terrorist group active in Jammu and Kashmir. Read less...

On January 11, a key ‘linkman’ of the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), identified as Meghnath Roy, has been arrested by police personnel from Shidhabari under Alipurduar police station limits in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. According to police sources, the arrested person has admitted giving shelter to KLO senior leaders, including its commander-in-chief Jibon Singha, on various occasions. He is also alleged to have worked as a facilitator for the supply of 20 rocket-propelled grenades to the outfit’s Bucca camp in Bhutan. Read less...

Suspected terrorists of the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) reportedly killed four civilians and injured several others in an attack on a video parlour in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district on January 14. Read less...

On January 16, a relative of the West Bengal Forest Minister Jogesh Burman, identified as Shyamal Roy was arrested at Jharbeltoli under Falakata Police Station in the Jalpaiguri district for his alleged close links with the KLO. According to police sources, Shyamal Roy had given shelter to KLO cadres on several occasions and had links with the outfit’s senior leaders like Tom Adhikary, Milton Burman and Anirban Rava. Read less...

On January 17, West Bengal police arrested eight ‘linkmen’ (five from Falakata, two from Dhupguri and one from Mainaguri) of the proscribed terrorist outfit, Kamatapur Liberation Organization (KLO), in the Jalpaiguri district of North Bengal. Read less...

Meanwhile, the Telegraph quoting North Bengal police intelligence sources reported that the fugitive KLO ‘commander-in-chief’ Jibon Singha, now in Dhaka, is scheduled to meet the functionaries of Pakistan’s external intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in Bangladesh to seek their help. Read less...

Meanwhile, the Telegraph reported that the West Bengal government is contemplating provision of special funds for the rehabilitation of the surrendered KLO cadres. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has reportedly asked the administrative chiefs of three districts, which have been affected by KLO militancy (Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar), to prepare a comprehensive draft plan along with an estimate of funds required for the project. Read less...

On January 18, a terrorist of the Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) identified as Helatu Das, surrendered at the Kumargram police station in the Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal. Read less...

On January 18, the Cooch Behar Police arrested three Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) ‘linkmen’ from Buxirhat police station area on the charge of sheltering terrorists. According to police sources, the arrested had also helped terrorists to abduct a person from Nishiganj area in November 2003. Read less...