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From Alipurduar to Malda, the entire North Bengal region is under threat as four members of the terrorist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen of Bangladesh (JMB) may have sneaked into Indian territory from neighbouring Bangladesh, according to intelligence agencies.
Though intelligence sources said they do not have specific information on the place, date and time for any possible attacks, a high alert has been sounded among the district bureaucrats in this regard.
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Top district officials, however, denied they had received any such input or alert from anywhere.
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According to intelligence sources, the festival season from Durga Puja to Diwali is a time when people move about in droves in streets or in the public transport system, and that these terrorists may target such places and crowds and try to inflict maximum injury.
“Further, the railways being a soft target, subversive or destructive activities on the system can also be planned. Two of the four militants have already reached West Bengal and two others are very much likely to join them shortly,” the sources said.
They added that the four JMB members have been identified as Md Salauddin, Md Jahirul, Md Rakib and Md Riaz Ali Chowdhury.
The agencies have suspected that the two terrorists may have been hiding in Dinhata Cooch Behar district, “while explosives needed to trigger explosions are often supplied to them by miscreants from Nepal,” the sources added.
According to the Railway Protection Force’s Malda division, they are already on a high alert.
Malda Superintendent of Police, Arnab Ghosh, said he has so far not received anything in this regard. “Nothing as such has come to my notice, but even if it did, it would be highly confidential,” he said.
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