Woman from Bengal's Hooghly district arrested in Bangladesh for links with terror outfit
Kolkata: A unit of the Bangladesh Police has arrested an Indian woman, who ran away from West Bengal’s Hooghly district to the neighbouring country allegedly to join the banned terror outfit Neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB). The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) in Bangladesh arrested Ayesha Jannat Mohona in Dhaka Friday for her alleged involvement with the women’s wing of the terror outfit. It found out about her Indian connection during interrogation, said a Dhaka Tribune report . Ayesha was born Pragya Debnath in Dhaniakhali, Hooghly, but converted to Islam later. ThePrint couldn’t ascertain when she converted. According to the report, she relocated to Bangladesh last year after marrying a Bangladeshi national, who was then in Oman. She taught at madrassas there, and used to look after the recruitment drive for Neo-JMB’s women’s wing. No connection with home Tathagata Basu, Superintendent of Police (SP), Hooghly (rural) said Bengal police has “nothing