West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee conveyed state government’s displeasure at the FBI team’s surprise visit, without informing the state, to question alleged Islamic State operative Mohammed Masiuddin, alias Abu al-Musa, a resident of Labhpur in the state.
Sources quoted by Times of India said that West Bengal DGP Surajit Kar Purkayastha called the director general of National Investigation Agency (NIA) Sharad Kumar to convey the state government’s displeasure.
According to Times of India, NIA responded to West Bengal authorities that the international agency-to-agency cooperation agreement permits FBI or any other international agency to probe without informing the state government.
A senior official told TOI that even home ministry was not formally informed about the visit.
Masiuddin was arrested in July from Viswabharati Fast Passenger train at Burdwan station in a joint raid by the NIA and West Bengal CIB.
According to officials, Masiuddin had revealed his connection to top leaders of at least two terror groups and admitted that he had been assigned to propagate the terror ideology in Bengal and other places in the eastern part of the country.
