Indian associate of LeT ordered to seven-day transit remand

Bangaon, Apr 22 (UNI) North 24 Parganas Sub-divisional Judicial court here today ordered an Indian associate of Laskar-e-Toiba Sk Shamir to seven-day transit remand to Maharashtra.

Another associate Mujaffar Ahmed Khan from Kashmir was remanded to judicial custody here till May 2, police said here.

They were both nabbed from here and kept under custody by the CID, West Bengal. Sk Shamir was handed over to the Maharashtra police for further interrogation.

According to the police, both Shamir and Mujaffar were produced before the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate D N Mitra of the sub-divisional court. The Maharashtra police sought permission to take the accused in their custody for further interrogation.

Incidentally, previous interrogations by the CID here revealed that Shamim was a resident of Aurangabad in Maharashtra, from where he had joined the Pakistani ultras - Sk Abdullah and Md Yunus from Dhaka and helped the latter to cross the international border here on March 30 last.

The ACJM Mitra allowed Maharshtra police to take Sk Shamir into their custody for seven days, directing them to produce him before the court on April 29 next.

Both the ultras were arrested along with two Pakistani extremists of Laskar-e-Toiba from Petrapol near hereon April 2 after BSF intelligence trapped the quartet when they intruded into the Indian Territory through the international border from Bangladesh.

UNI