Kolkata, Nov 22 (PTI) A court here today remanded twosuspected members of banned Bangladeshi group AnsarullahBangla Team and their Indian accomplice in 14 days of policecustody, rejecting their bail prayers.
The trio, who were arrested by the Special Task Force ofthe city police from Kolkata railway station here yesterday,were sent to police custody till December 5 by ChiefMetropolitan Magistrate Satya Arnab Ghosal.
Seeking their remand, public prosecutor Pijush KantiMondal submitted that Bangladeshi citizens Samsad Mia andRizaul Islam were suspected members of Ansarullah Bangla Team,while their Indian accomplice Manotosh Dey was an arms dealer.
He submitted that all the three were arrested when theymet at Kolkata station in the northern part of the city todiscuss an arms deal.
Mondal stated that documents related to terror outfit alQaeda were recovered from the two Bangladeshis, who were alsoallegedly in possession of some Aadhaar cards.
The three persons have been arrested under the Arms Actand accused of forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy.
Defence counsel K K Tiwari prayed for bail of thethree persons claiming that documents recovered from theBangladeshis cannot be said to be related to al Qaeda forcertain and that no arms were recovered from Dey.
Hearing both the parties, the court rejected the bailprayers and sent them to police remand.
Samsad Mia and Rizaul Islam hailing from Sylhet andKhulna respectively in Bangladesh, had entered India one-and-a-half years ago, STF deputy commissioner Muralidhar Sharmasaid yesterday.
Samsad, who is an engineer, had a PAN card in hispossession bearing the name Tushar Biswas. Fifty Aadhaar cardsand handwritten chits with names of areas in the city, likeDharmatala and Park Street were found from them, he said.
Manotosh Dey, an alleged arms dealer, is a resident ofBasirhat in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, hesaid. PTI AMR NNZMN.
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