Sagar Biswas :A three-member Bangladesh investigators’ team, comprising the officials of different security agencies, is now passing a busy time in Kolkata to conduct an inquiry connecting to recent back-to-back Gulshan and Sholakia attacks, officials said.According to information provided by Police Headquarters, the team reached Kolkata on Monday night. The members of the team have been chosen from Rapid Action Battalion [RAB], Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes Unit [CTTCU] and Police Bureau of Investigation [PBI]. The investigator’s team started its assigned task from Tuesday morning. The team was scheduled to hold an emergency meeting with the concerned officials of Indian National Investigation Agency [NIA] at Salt Lake, sources said.Meanwhile, the Bangladesh team yesterday quizzed a high-profile militant suspect Mohammed Masiuddin alias Musa for link to Islamic State [IS] and banned Islamist terrorist outfit Jama’atul Mujahedin Bangladesh [JMB]. “So far as we know, one Musa has been nabbed in India. He is a member of a banned militant outfit. To quiz him, a three-member team of Police Headquarters went to Kolkata,” Assistant Inspector General of Police [Confidential] Md Moniruzzaman told The New Nation last night. The AIG also said that the team may go to other Indian states for the sake of investigation.Quoting an NIA official, the Indian media said that it was not clear the reason behind the visit of Bangladesh team, though both the countries have common interest over ‘rising trend of terrorism and counterfeit currency businesses.’Reliable sources said the Bangladesh team is now collecting information about one Abu Suleiman also known as Mohammad Suleiman, 30, leader of JMB. Masiuddin, a resident of Birbhum, who was caught by NIA agents at Bardwan Railway Station in the first week of July, at first revealed the name of Suleiman during interrogation. He was staying in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruppur with his family and two children. It was learnt that Suleiman asked Musa to start work for IS in 2014. Suleiman also met Musa twice, once at Birbhum and next time at Malda same year. Official sources said Suleiman is a prime suspect of Gulshan and Sholakia terror attacks, who is also believed to be a coordinator, and main source of finance and arms used by the militants in the assaults. Local security officials, requesting to remain anonymous, said that Musa was seen in the video footage being present on the spot during bomb and gun attack at Sholakia. Meanwhile, Bangladesh police provided a picture of Suleiman to NIA. After analyzing the photo, investigators suspected that it is not his real name. Not only that, Musa also during the interrogation divulged information that Suleiman was known to him as “Jihadi John”, a code name used for safe operational movement. But investigators also suspected that “Jihadi John” is not also his real name, it might be something else. The investigators, however, are trying to find a link between Musa’s link and Suleiman, an important member of the JMB, who had played a crucial role in the terror attack on Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka on July 1. As per information available, Musa being directed by Suleiman killed a promoter at Lavpur in Birbhum and at the same time murdered his maid after rape by cutting throat. The incident of double- murder, recorded in a video phone, was planned to send Bangladesh. But their plan went in vain when Musa along with his two accomplices were nabbed by Indian authorities in July. They were identified as Kallu Sheikh and Amin Sheikh — both suspected members of militant outfit. Musa came to visit West Bengal after almost six years. Masiuddin during interrogation had revealed his connection to top leaders of at least two terror groups and admitted that he had been assigned to spread their tentacles in West Bengal and other places. His phone records also showed that he had several times communicated with people from Bangladesh, Syria and Iraq, according to officials.
