Another man with links to ABT terrorists arrested in Kolkata

Kolkata Police today arrested a man allegedly linked to two terrorists of the banned Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) of Bangladesh from near a cinema hall in the city's busy Sealdah area, a senior police officer said.

Mohammed Sahadat Hossain was arrested by a team of the Special Task Force after the two ABT terrorists - Samsad Mia, alias Tanvir Saiful, and Rizaul Islam, who were arrested from the Kolkata railway station on Tuesday - provided information to them, he said.

Hossain has confessed to the STF sleuths that he had helped two persons — Swapan Biswas, alias Tamim, and Tanvir Saiful - in illegally entering India through the Bangladesh border.

"(Hossain) took both Tamim and Tanvir to Hyderabad where they were introduced to a group head of the banned terror outfit," the officer said.

Hossain later brought them back to Kolkata as per the instruction of the "group head", the officer said.

Tamim was introduced to Nayan Gazi here and the duo stayed for around three days at a hotel in Howrah.

"We have collected CCTV footages from the Howrah hotel and distributed photographs of the two to all police stations in the state. We need these two persons to dig more into the case," the officer said.

Anyone giving additional information about Tamim and Gazi would be rewarded, he added.

Hossain was produced before a city court during the day and was remanded to police custody till December 5.

On Tuesday, the STF had arrested Mia and Islam along with arms supplier Monotosh Dey from the Kolkata railway station and seized several fake documents and arms from them.

The two are suspected to be behind the killing of secular bloggers and writers in Bangladesh.