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Al-Qaeda

NIA detains Al-Qaeda suspect from West Bengal's Murshidabad

| @indiablooms | Dec 22, 2020, at 08:30 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has detained a suspected Al-Qaeda operative from Jalangi in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, reports said on Tuesday.

According to sources in the NIA, officials of the national counter-terrorist task force along with BSF personnel and local police force raided multiple locations in Jalangi and held the suspect, who has been identified as Sheikh Jahangir.

The man is being interrogated in a Murshidabad BSF camp, sources said.

Since September, NIA has arrested 11 suspects, eight from West Bengal and three from Kerala, for having links with a busted Al-Qaeda module.

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