The Madhubani connection

When Gayur Ahmed Jamali and Mohd Adil alias Ajmal were picked up from Darbhanga and Madhubani respectively 10 days ago, it was the sixth big arrest with terror links in this area bordering Nepal in the past five years. Bihar shares a 625-km border with Nepal, of which 73 km falls in Madhubani district. This is a largely porous border, and with families on either side having relatives or land on the other side, it is easy to cross over unnoticed. The first inkling of the emergence of a Madhubani module came in October 2005 when an Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police team swooped down on the Jaynagar telephone exchange along the Indo-Nepal border.

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