Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh banned
27, May 2019
Prelims level :
Mains level :
- Bangladesh-based terror outfit — the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) — was banned by the government of India under the anti-terror law UAPA.
- JMB was involved in the 2016 terror attack at a cafe in Bangladesh’s capital city Dhaka.
- The outfit has committed and promoted acts of terrorism and has been engaged in radicalisation and recruitment of youths for terrorist activities in India.