STF launch manhunt for two ABT operatives
Interrogation of arrested Bangladesh national Mohammad Sahadat Hossain has put the Special Task Force (STF) on the tracks of more Ansar Bangla Team (ABT) operatives believed to be hiding in India.
The STF, Kolkata released photographs of two ABT operatives and have announced awards for credible information on the two. The two ABT operatives at large include Shopon Biswas (23 years) alias Sajol Ahmed @ Tamim @ Moon. He is a resident of Khulna, Bangladesh.
The other person is Nayan Gazi (28 years) alias Zafor @ Safik. He is a resident of Magura Village, Satkhira, Bangladesh.
Incidentally one Mohammad Sahadat Hossain (26 years) alias Babu, was arrested from in front of the Jagat Talkies (cinema hall) located on Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Sealdah, Kolkata in the early hours of Friday.
Sahadat who is from Benepole, Jessore, Bangladesh is a tout who helps people illegally cross over the Indo-Bangladesh border without documents including passport and visa.
Sahadat
was
produced
in
a
Kolkata
court
and
has
been
remanded
to
police
custody
till
December
5.
Interrogation
of
Sahadat
revealed
that
had
facilitated
Tanvir
and
Sajol
Ahmed
to
cross
over
from
Bangladesh
to
India.
Sahadat
was
in
the
know
how
that
both
were
ABT
operatives.
Though Tanvir was arrested by the STF from Kolkata on December 21, Sajol Ahmed is at large. After having entered Kolkata they were taken to Hyderabad. In Hyderabad, Tanvir had met Riazul Islam. Tanvir and Riazul were then asked by their handler to return to Kolkata while Sajol Ahmed stayed back.
Tanvir and Riazul were arrested on November 21from the Kolkata Railway Station by the STF. Hossain also revealed that Sajol Ahmed had stayed in a hotel in Howrah along with Nayan Gazi for three days in the first week of October.
A
STF
team
visited
Shiva
Guest
House
on
Watkins
lane,
Howrah
where
the
duo
had
stayed.
The
Hotel
register
showed
that
room
204
has
been
booked
in
the
name
of
Shopon
Biswas
with
Noyon
Gazi
as
his
roommate.
"We
have
launched
a
man
hunt
for
the
two
ABT
operatives
who
are
at
large"
stated
Murlidhar
Sharma,
Deputy
Commissioner,
STF,
Kolkata.
Shopon had furnished a fake Adhar card with the address of Bajitpur, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal at the Hotel. Police are carefully examining the cc tv footages of the Hotel.
It has also been learnt that Hossain used to ferry persons across the border without documents for a sum of Rs. 5000/- per person. He also involved in arms smuggling across the border.
Al-Qaeda had started operations in Bangladesh in 2007 as Jamatul Muslemen. However with funds drying up, Jamatul Muslemen had ceased to operate. It however resurfaced in 2013 as ABT. The Bangladesh Government has banned ABT following their involvement in assaults and murder of atheist and secular bloggers of Bangladesh.
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