Bengal: BSF links intruders to Laskar outfit

Bangaon, Apr 2: The intelligence agencies today linked the four people arrested by the BSF personnel near here as Laskar-e-Toiba members.

According to police, BSF apprehended Sheik Shamim, Sk Abdullah, Md. Yunis and Mujaffar Ahmed Khan alias Alamgir from behind the Central Warehouse complex while they were sneaking in the country through the porus Indo-Bangladesh border.

After a marathon interrogation till late night by the BSF, police and other central and state intelligence personnel, it was told that of the quartet, two were the Pakistani nationals, while one was from Kashmir and the other from Maharashtra.

However, BSF were yet to hand them over to the police to start prosecution, police said.

Meanwhile, Inspector General BSF Somesh Goel reached Haridaspur late last night and interrogated the quartet. BSF had seized fake passports, foreign currencies and some incriminating documents that indicated involvement of the quartet with the extremist outfit, informed sources said.

UNI