14 militants entered India over past few months

Kolkata, Aug 17 (UNI) In a startling revelation, the two arrested Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar activists today admitted to police that at least 14 Pakistan-trained terrorists had entered the country from across the border over the past few months.

As CID interrogation of Mohammad Zubair and Mohammad Sohail, the two Pakistan nationals arrested from Hingalganj on August 14 continued here, they reportedly admitted to having had a plan to trigger an explosion in the B B D Bagh, the busy office area in central Kolkata where the state secretariat is located, official sources said.

''During interrogation, they said altogether 14 militants had sneaked into India from across the border over the past two or three months. Besides having a design for an explosion in the BBD Bagh area, they had also targeted few private office buildings,'' the sources said.

The two Pakistani nationals are being grilled by both CID officials and a team of the anti-terrorist squad of Mumbai police which has flown in here shortly after their arrest to probe into their possible link with the chain bomb blasts on July 7.

They were interrogated by CID sleuths also the last night.

Zuber and Sohail also told police that they had an extensive training in computer operation and that instead of mobile phone e-mail was the mode of communcation among themselves, the sources said.

The SDJM court yesterday remanded both the ultras to 14 days police remand.

Documents seized from them revealed names and addresses, a few of them in Bengal, pointing that the state was being used as a transit point, investigating officers said.

The duo was nabbed by the BSF from Sahebkhali under Hingalganj police station area in North 24 Parganas on Monday night when they were crossing the Ichhamati river in a boat. The BSF had handed them over to police yesterday.

The BSF had earlier said the terrorists were on a ''specific mission'' to India and heading for the Uri sector in Jammu and Kashmir via Delhi.

They were trained in using arms in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK) and landed at Mirpur in Bangladesh early last month. Some documents and a map were found in their possession, sources said.

They had revealed that they dealt in arms and were engaged in smuggling RDX and explosives from Bangladesh to India since July, sources added.

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