The head of the terrorist group Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), which has ties to al-Qaida, Jashimuddin Rahmani was set free by the caretaker administration in bangladesh, which is headed by Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus. india is concerned about the publication since the terrorist organization has been attempting to use sleeper cells to create a jihadi network.
 
According to the Dhaka Tribune, Rahmani, who was imprisoned for killing blogger Rajib Haider, was granted parole on Monday.
 
Previously, india has detained a number of terrorists connected to the Ansarullah Bangla Team. In May of this year, the assam Police detained Bahar Mia and Rarely Mia, two terrorists connected to ABT, at the guwahati railway station.

ABT is associated with Al-Qaida in the indian Subcontinent (AQIS), an extremist group that is prohibited in India.
 
On Monday, Jashimuddin Rahmani, who was found guilty of the blogger's hacking death, was allowed to leave the Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur on parole. In addition, he was charged under anti-terror statutes in Bangladesh.
 
On february 15, 2013, he was found guilty of murdering Rajib Haider and given a five-year jail term. Rahmani was taken into custody in august 2013 after Haider was fatally hacked in front of his Dhaka home.
 
In 2015, Rahmani's ABT was outlawed in bangladesh during Sheikh Hasina's administration. It later changed its name to Ansar al-Islam, and in 2017 it was once more outlawed.
 
HOW ANSARULLAH BANGLA TEAM TIED UP WITH LASHKAR-E-TAIBA
According to sources who spoke with india Today, the ABT and Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) collaborated to carry out terrorist acts in the northeastern regions of India.
 
Sources claim that LeT and ABT first worked together in 2022 when they set up a base in bengal with the intention of carrying out operations in India.
 
Information received in 2022 also suggests that between fifty and one hundred ABT cadres intended to enter Tripura.
 
ABT militants have been captured by assam Police on many occasions, thwarting the terror group's attempts to create a network in the northeastern state.
 
According to chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, in order to evade detection, ABT jihadis were utilizing highly encrypted gadgets instead of standard communication platforms.
 
 
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S Venkateshwari

28/08/2024 11:01 AM