Interestingly, the file proposing the clean chit gathered dust until the Dhaka terror attack trained the spotlight on Naik.

The police official said the other associates of the attackers fled the flat after the attack. Several cartons were seized from the flat.

"As per my travel plan, I will come to India next year. I am an NRI and I need to be abroad for substantial (periods of) time," he said.

"These are highly regrettable, irresponsible and provocative stories being carried in the Indian media. They are utterly baseless and unfou...

While Abu Ibrahim is relatively a new kid in the block, JMB has been active in Bangladesh as well as in India for more than a decade now.

The Left party also claimed all terrorist outfits are "directly or indirectly" products of phobia created by the US.

In Dhaka, Brigadier General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury, director of military operations, told reporters that "most of the victims were killed ...