Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit chief Mohamad Asaduzzaman at a press briefing on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Holey Artisan Cafe attack on July 1 said that the Government has started a process to ban the Neo-Jama’atul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB), reports New Age. Asaduzzaman said “The process to ban the extremist outfit Neo JMB is underway and it will be banned soon.” The Government branded the Islamic State-inspired faction of the banned JMB as ‘Neo-JMB’ as many of the members of the JMB joined the new group mostly from 2014 in coordination with Junud at-Tawheed Wal Khilafah coordinator Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi-Canadian killed during a Police raid in Narayanganj on August 27, 2016.