NEW DELHI/KOLKATA, June 18 � After being on the run for eight months, Nurul Hoque, alleged to be the key conspirator in many activities of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror outfit, was arrested by National Investigation Agency (NIA) today in connection with the Burdwan blast case, reports PTI.
The NIA claimed that Hoque had been arrested from Howrah railway station this afternoon and is being interrogated for his role in last October�s Burdwan blasts that led to unravelling of a conspiracy of toppling the government of Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh and replacing it with a government on Sharia rule.
Aged 26 years, Haque, a resident of Bakshipur of Murshidabad district, carried a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head.
The NIA said in a release that several witnesses, as well as interrogation of arrested JMB cadres arrested in connection with the case, had spoken of �Naeem� as a very active member of the terror outfit who was operational in Birbhum district of West Bengal and was in close association with Dalim Sheikh (arrested) and Talha Sheikh, a Bangladeshi national who is absconding.
