A seven-member high-level intelligence and police team arrived in India yesterday on a mission to exchange information with their counterparts about Bangladeshi militants using India as a base of operations.
The team, led by DB Joint Commissioner Md Monirul Islam, will be in India until November 29.
Other members of the team are GM Azizur Rahman, additional deputy inspector general of Special Branch; Col Abu Hena Mostofa, director of National Security Intelligence; Lt Col Mohammed Abul Kalam Azad of the Rapid Action Battalion; Mahfuzur Rahman, assistant inspector general of police; Md Ashraful Islam, senior superintendent of police of the CID; and Maj Mohammad Atiqur Rahman of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.
The trip follows a visit made by India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) to Dhaka earlier this month.
The delegation will exchange information with the NIA about Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activities in India in order to help India locate them, DB chief Monirul said.
The intelligence agencies of the two countries agreed to share information about militancy after the October 2 Bardhaman explosion that killed two suspected militants – Shakil Ahmed and Sovan Mandal – and left another, Hasan Saheb, injured.
