A court here today remanded two suspected members of banned Bangladeshi group Ansarullah Bangla Team and their Indian accomplice in 14 days of police custody, rejecting their bail prayers.
The trio, who were arrested by the Special Task Force of the city police from Kolkata railway station here yesterday, were sent to police custody till December 5 by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satya Arnab Ghosal.
Seeking their remand, public prosecutor Pijush Kanti Mondal submitted that Bangladeshi citizens Samsad Mia and Rizaul Islam were suspected members of Ansarullah Bangla Team, while their Indian accomplice Manotosh Dey was an arms dealer.
He submitted that all the three were arrested when they met at Kolkata station in the northern part of the city to discuss an arms deal.
Mondal stated that documents related to terror outfit al Qaeda were recovered from the two Bangladeshis, who were also allegedly in possession of some Aadhaar cards.
The three persons have been arrested under the Arms Act and accused of forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy.
Defence counsel K K Tiwari prayed for bail of the three persons claiming that documents recovered from the Bangladeshis cannot be said to be related to al Qaeda for certain and that no arms were recovered from Dey.
Hearing both the parties, the court rejected the bail prayers and sent them to police remand.
Samsad Mia and Rizaul Islam hailing from Sylhet and Khulna respectively in Bangladesh, had entered India one-and-a -half years ago, STF deputy commissioner Muralidhar Sharma said yesterday.
Samsad, who is an engineer, had a PAN card in his possession bearing the name Tushar Biswas. Fifty Aadhaar cards and handwritten chits with names of areas in the city, like Dharmatala and Park Street were found from them, he said.
Manotosh Dey, an alleged arms dealer, is a resident of Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, he said.
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