GUWAHATI: A Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operative Abdul Matin who was arrested by the Special Task Force of Kolkata Police on Thursday in Kerala hails from Barpeta district of Assam.
A security source here informed that Matin became a JMB member in 2010 when he was studying at a madrasa in Burdwan district of West Bengal.
He was arrested for his links to the 2014 Burdwan blast that brought to light presence of a wide network of jihadis in a few districts of West Bengal
He received training in making IEDs and was involved in the making of IEDs. Matin was one of the 15 persons who were given arms training in Simulia Madrasa in Burdwan district.
Matin allegedly left Bengal for Kerala immediately after an IED accidentally went off on the first floor of a rented house at Khagragarh area in Burdwan town in Bengal on October 2, 2014, killing two suspected JMB terrorists who were running a terror module.
