According to intelligence reports of multiple agencies, including the Police, the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B) is back, this time in the garb of Hefajat-e-Islam (HeI), reports The Daily Star on April 26. HuJI-B was found to be involved in the three-day HeI mayhem that was carried out across the country from March 26 to March 28 in protest against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The mayhem was actually a planned activity of Huji," according to an official of an intelligence agency. Several law enforcers investigating the mayhem said leaders of HuJI-B, which was banned in 2005 following the grisly grenade attack on an Awami League rally that killed 22 people, started to gather under the HeI umbrella. It managed to gain some control over the Qwami madrasa-based organisation recently. "In our investigation, we have got evidence on Hefajat's links with militant outfits. A group of Afghanistan returnees along with some Jamaat-Shibir men became tagged with the religion-based organisation Hefajat," Mahbub Alam, Joint Commissioner (Detective Branch) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told. Tohidul Islam, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, said their investigation also found that a number of HuJI-B operatives were holding posts in the HeI committee. "These operatives are now trying to use the Hefajat banner to fulfill their purpose and carry out subversive activities in the country," he added. According to an intelligence report, the 249-member HeI central committee, which was dissolved last night, had at least eight leaders who are either former operatives of HuJI-B or have connections with the militant outfit.