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| Terrorist duo killed in Mumbai travelled via Bangladesh |
| 2006-08-24 |
| KOLKATA: Investigations by the Crime Investigations Department (CID) of the West Bengal police have revealed that Mohammad Ali alias Abu Osama and Mohammad Riaz Nababuddin, the duo killed by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai Police at the Antop Hill operation on Tuesday, had come to Mumbai after infiltrating the Indo-Bangladesh border along West Bengal. The CID came across this information in the course of interrogation of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jash-e-Muhammad terrorists, Mohammad Sohail and Mohammad Zubair, who were arrested by the Border Security Force (BSF) on August 14, 2006 at Hingalgunj border in West Bengal during their attempts to cross the border. The killing of Pakistan-backed terrorists in Mumbai on Tuesday has once again corroborated that the Indo-Bangladesh border along West Bengal has emerged as the favoured corridor for infiltration by terrorists since vigil has been beefed up along the western borders. The CID of West Bengal Police has got definite clues that Ali and Nababuddin got training in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir along with Sohail and Zubair. Interrogations have also revealed that the ammunition and explosives recovered by the ATS following its Antop Hill operations has also come into the country from Bangladesh through West Bengal. The border waterfront in the Sunderbans area is now utilised as the transit route for arms from Bangladesh to West Bengal, from where it reached Mumbai. It is also suspected that Sohail and Zubair, arrested on August 14, were also heading for Mumbai to link up with Ali and Nababuddin. The CID is attempting to ensure the internal links between Ali, Nababuddin, Sohail and Zubair and for that purpose it had sought the pictures of Ali and Nababuddin from ATS of Maharashtra Police. Meanwhile, CID sources told DNA that another ATS team from Mumbai is likely to come to Kolkata shortly to interrogate Sohail and Zubair. The state police have arrested two other persons, Nimai and Asim Mandal from Hingalgunj. Interrogations revealed both of them were working as the local linkmen of Jash-e-Muhammad in the area. Investigations are on to tap other local linkmen in the area |
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