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West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) Police arrests 3 suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists. The police have recovered fire arms, Indian ID cards, Bangladeshi passports, jehadi literature from their possession.

V Solomon Nesakumar, a senior police officer of Kolkata Police's STF addressed a press conference on the matter and said, "Today at 2:00 PM, 3 Bangladeshi nationals have been arrested by STF whose link is with JMB. A handwritten diary and some false documents have been found from them."

The accused have been identified as Naziur Rahman Pavel alias Joseph( 30 Years ) , Rabiul Islam(22 Years ) and Mikail Khan alias Sheikh Sabbir( 30 Years ) , all residents of Gopalganj in Bangladesh.

The STF sleuths found that the three had crossed the international border early this year, the IPS officer said.

“Preliminary investigations revealed that the three had informed their house owner that they had come there on some medical ground. We are trying to find out who else are involved with them. The motive behind their presence is also being probed,” he said.



The police recovered mobile phones, some firearms, Indian identity cards, Bangladeshi passports, JMB related documents and jehadi literature from their possession. A diary was also seized which had information related to other JMB leaders staying in Bangladesh, the police said. the IPS said.

On whether the three had any connection with the militants arrested in Lucknow, the officer said, “We are also checking that angle also.”

Two terrorists of the Al-Qaeda-supported Ansar Ghazwatul Hind were arrested from the outskirts of the Uttar Pradesh capital on Sunday and explosive materials were seized from them.

A number of JMB operatives including Indians were arrested from West Bengal in the past few years.

The JMB, which carried out a terror attack at a popular cafe in Dhaka in 2016 in which 22 people including 17 foreigners were killed, is trying to spread its tentacles in India, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had said in 2019