Murshidabad, Sep 30 (UNI) The NIA has begun a fresh hunt for possible clues and presence of Pakistan aided terrorists, nearly two weeks after six al-Qaeda operatives were arrested from West Bengal's Murshidabad district, a sensitive area close to the Bangladesh border of eastern India.
Some officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), in association with BSF and local police, on Tuesday made an intensive search operation along with one of the arrested Leu Yean Ahmed into his house at Domkal (Murshidabad) and seized some documents, a source here today said.
Before the latest recovery of some increment documents, the NIA in earlier search operations detected a secret chamber at the house Abu Sufian Mollah, uncovered a lathe machine and seized some country made arms.
Leu Yean Ahmed, a resident of Jalangi, was a former graduate student of Domkal College. He did double MA from the Netaji Open University and was employed as an electrician at the Domkal College. The NIA also visited Jalangi and searched some areas where Ahmed had contact.
The NIA found evidence that Ahmed had contact in Pakistan and supported the Pakistan agenda in social media. He was also a staunch supporter of former Iran general Kasem Suleymani, sources added.
The NIA was trying to establish actually what the motives of the six arrested al Qaeda operatives were. After nine operatives arrested from Bengal and Kerala, the NIA also arrested the 10th suspect Samim Ansari from Murshidabad recently.
As per the investigation, these suspects were radicalised by Pakistan-based al-Qaeda terrorists on the social media and were motivated to undertake attacks at multiple places including New Delhi.
The suspects had been active and collecting funds to arms and ammunition and fresh recruitment.
The arrested suspects were identified as Murshid Hasan, Iyakub Biswas, Mosaraf Hossen (all from Ernakulam), and Najmus Sakib, Abu Sufiyan, Mainul Mondal, Leu Yean Ahmed, Al Mamun Kamal, and Atitur Rehman (from Murshidabad).
Meanwhile, an NIA court in Kolkata sentenced two terrorists of Ansarullah Bangla Team to seven years rigorous imprisonment and fine.
The duo - Sahadat Hossain alias Babu and Umar Farooq alais Md Aftab - were arrested by the STF of Kolkata Police in 2017 and NIA took their custody.
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