Eight arrested for allegedly plotting terror attack in India, say police
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Eight persons have been arrested from West Bengal and Tamil Nadu for allegedly conspiring to commit terrorist activities in India, ANI quoted Pramod Kumar Kushwaha, the additional commissioner of police in the Special Cell, as saying on Sunday.
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Seven of those arrested are Bangladeshi nationals, said Kushwaha, adding that with this, “a major untoward incident has been prevented”.
The arrests were made after “anti-national posters” were found pasted in Delhi’s Kashmere Gate metro station, he said.
“The Central Industrial Security Force noticed this and brought it to the attention of the Metro unit of the Delhi Police,” he added.
Following this, the Special Cell of the Delhi Police, in coordination with the West Bengal Police, arrested two persons, identified as Umar Farooq Robil Ul Islam, from Kolkata.
Islam is a Bangladeshi national, Kushwaha was quoted as saying by ANI.
He claimed that the two men had told the police that they were responsible for putting up “anti-India posters” at several places in Delhi.
“Later, it was found out through interrogation and investigation that the direction to them was being given by Shabbir Ahmed Lone, from Bangladesh,” said the police officer.
He added that Lone, who is a resident of Kashmir’s Ganderbal, had been arrested in 2007 with an Avtomat Kalashnikova-47 rifle and grenades while he was allegedly conspiring...