Kolkata, March 24
Intelligence agencies, both central and state, have been put on high alert in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, especially in the villages close to the international border, following inputs on fresh attempts by Bangladesh-based underground outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HUT) trying to infiltrate.
Sources said that the alerts had been issued following inputs that some JMB and HUT activists, currently operating out of the Rajsahi and Chapai-Nawabganj districts in Bangladesh, are making attempts in small groups to illegally cross into the Indian territory in the Murshidabad district to reactivate the sleeper cells.
Sources added that the inputs were received after the central intelligence officials were able to track some communications made by these JMB and HUT activists with their local moles in Murshidabad through various Internet-based communication channels.
Among those local contacts who were contacted by the JMB and HUT activists, sources added, a couple of them are attached to some 'khariji (unregistered)' madrasas operating out of some India-Bangladesh bordering villages in Murshidabad district.