July 31, 2026 08:29 am (IST)
West Bengal: JMB operative nabbed from Malda's Indo-Bangladesh border
Kolkata/Malda, Jan 7 (IBNS): Acting on a tip off, Border Security Force (BSF)'s intelligence unit on Friday midnight arrested the kingpin of a FICN (Fake Indian Currency Notes) trafficking racket Ripon Sheikh alias Lion alias Ripon, who also has links with Bangladesh's militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from Sabdalpur village under Baishnabnagar Police Station limits in West Bengal's Malda district, officials said.
According to reports, after being nabbed from India-Bangladesh border area, the JMB suspect has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).
The NIA has taken the 30-year-old suspect to its office in Kolkata's Salt Lake for further interrogation.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha,Image: Wikimedia Commons)
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