Suspected terrorist Mohammed Mosiruddin received several phone calls from Syria, Iraq and Bangladesh, investigators have claimed citing details of the call list on his mobile phone.
"It was quite surprising to see so many calls on the suspected terrorist's mobile phone made from foreign countries. After checking the numbers we have found that a few calls were made from Syria, some from Iraqi numbers while some were made to and received from Bangladesh also," a CID officer told PTI.
"There were calls made and received from other states of the country also. We are verifying them and trying to find out who and why the calls were made to Mosiruddin," he said.
Asked whether any documents related to Mosiruddin's link to Islamic State (ISIS) and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were seized, the officer said, "We will not be able to divulge that but I can confirm that we have got definite clues relating to Mosiruddin's links to the terror groups."
It was learnt that during a joint grilling session by CID, National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) sleuths, Mosiruddin has said a list of top IPS officers in the country including from West Bengal were being prepared.
"But he was mum when asked for what purpose the list was getting prepared ... We are checking whether he (Mosiruddin) was lying to confuse us or not," he said, adding the suspected terrorist has claimed to have downloaded images of several IPS officers from the Internet also.
Questioning Mosiruddin, it was found that he was back in West Bengal and was heading to his native place Labhpur in Birbhum district after six years on an "assignment" to kill someone there.
CID today arrested Kallu Sheikh and Amin Sheikh who were waiting for Mosiruddin at Burdwan station and were detained along with him on Monday night. It was being suspected that the two men were working for one of the two terror groups and were recruited by Mosiruddin.
Mosiruddin gave out names of a person, who he claimed was
his handler in Hyderabad.
On the suspected terrorist's return to Bengal, the CID officer said, "There were two purposes for which he has come back after so many years. One was to spread the tentacles of the IS and other to murder someone and for that purpose he had bought that sharp knife."
Mosiruddin was first detained by CID officers who were following him at Amadpur in Burdwan district inside Viswabharati Fast Passenger train and then arrested at Burdwan station for his alleged links to ISIS and JMB.
A 13-inch-long knife, an improvised small firearm and three rounds of bullets were seized from him.
Mosiruddin was produced at a Howrah court today and charged under the Arms Act and also with sedition. He was remanded in police custody for 14 days.
Kallu and Amin were also charged with sedition.
Mosiruddin was residing in Tamil Nadu's Tirppur district with his wife and two children for over six years. He was running a grocery shop there.
He got down at Howrah station, went to Esplanade where he bought a sharp weapon and returned to it to board the train to return to Labhpur, the officer said.
Acting on an information that he was returning to Kolkata on Tuesday, CID had kept a track of his movements in the city and arrested him from Burdwan station.
CID sources said NIA sleuths had been keeping an eye on Mosiruddin for quite some time.
Burdwan district entered the terror map in October, 2014 when two suspected JMB terrorists were killed while making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) at a rented house at Khagragarh.
The NIA arrested a mechanical engineering student on suspicion of being a terrorist from Durgapur in March. Another person, suspected to be a Bangladeshi militant, was also arrested from Asansol later.
