Indian police have arrested a 36-year-old woman who is suspected of being involved in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
The arrest came days after Indian security officials said they had uncovered a plot by members of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, accused of carrying out scores of attacks in Bangladesh, targeting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The group also planned to assassinate the country’s main opposition leader, Khaleda Zia, Indian officials said. Hasina and Khaleda have dominated Bangladeshi politics for more than two decades.
Pallab Bhattacharjee, additional director general of police in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, said the woman had been also charged with collecting arms with an intention of waging war against India.
She has been arrested by the special operations unit of the Assam Police and will be produced in court, he said.
The alleged assassination conspiracy was discovered after two members of the outlawed group were killed in an explosion while building homemade bombs at a house in West Bengal in eastern India last month.
Indian police say the militants were Bangladeshis and were using India as a safe haven to plan the attacks. – GreenWatch Dhaka Desk
