CID team leaves for Chennai to investigate possible links

Kolkata, Aug 21 (UNI) Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officials today left for Chennai to investigate possible links following the arrest of two Pakistan-trained ''fidayeens'' near the Bangladesh border on August 14.

The two are suspected to be linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed.

During interrogation, it was found that they had received e-mail from someone in Chennai, CID sources said.

Earlier, a Mumbai police team came here to find out whether the two had links with those responsible for the July 11 blasts.

Mohd Sohail Afzal (22) and Mohd Zuber Sanaf (25) had admitted before the investigating officers that they were planning to go to Mumbai from the city.

The cops, however, have no idea about their mission in Mumbai.

The two had confessed that in Pakistan their passport was seized by the ISI and sent to Bangladesh. They sneaked into that country and were given shelter by one Rahim Chacha in Nurpur, who after giving them training in computers and Arms, helped them to enter India with the aid of a tout Nasir.

It was when they were coming from Nurpur to Hingalganj crossing the river that they were arrested at Charalkhali.

The duo said they were supposed to meet one Bashir in Kolkata who was to take them to Mumbai to meet one Rashid who would instruct them on their mission.

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