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ON MAY 24TH THIS YEAR, the Indian Government banned the Bangladesh-based terrorist organisation, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JUM), which is now a part of the IS umbrella. On June 25th, the police arrested four IS operatives with links to JUM. It is the JUM which the police hold responsible for the bomb blast in Bodh Gaya in Bihar in January last year. Intelligence agencies believe that in the last few years, over 3,000 terrorists belonging to JUM and its allied outfits have entered India. A secret communique of Telangana Police suggests that JUM has established two girl madrasas in West Bengal along the Bangladesh border. Here, the note says, young women married to JUM militants are taught how to prepare IEDs with locally available material.

In June 2015, a man fromWest Bengal attended the Friday prayers at downtown Srinagar’s main mosque. Afterwards, as young Kashmiris spilled out on the street, the man, now masked, took out a flag of the Islamic State and waved it in front of the media men. The man, Mohammed Mosiuddin, was on a mission. He had been sent by an IS handler called Abu Sulaiman in Bangladesh to do a reconnaissance in Delhi and Srinagar to see if foreigners, especially from America, Russia, and Britain could be targeted. He had also been in touch with JUM operatives in Bangladesh.

Mosiuddin also chatted regularly with another IS operative, Mohammed Shafi Armar, a resident of Bhatkal, Karnataka, who is believed to have died in Syria recently. Sultan Armar, alias Abdul Rehman al-Hindi, Armar’s brother, had founded