3 Jamaat Terrorists Arrested In Kolkata May Have Al-Qaeda Links: Police

The STF arrested JMB terrorists Najiur Rahman, Rabiul Islam and Sabir from Haridevpur area in south Kolkata on Sunday. They are Bangladeshi nationals who had used forged documents to get a room on rent.

The three neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists, arrested in Kolkata, were setting up terror modules in West Bengal and may have links with Al-Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), police said. It is suspected that they have associates in some districts of the state, a senior officer of the Special Task Force (STF) of the Kolkata Police said on Tuesday. "Initial interrogation revealed that the JMB operatives were trying to build modules in West Bengal. These terrorists may have links with terror groups Al-Qaeda and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI). The documents seized from them indicate this," the officer said. The STF arrested JMB terrorists Najiur Rahman, Rabiul Islam and Sabir from Haridevpur area in south Kolkata on Sunday. They are Bangladeshi nationals who had used forged documents to get a room on rent.