A joint team of West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday picked up an alleged terrorist linked to Tehreek e Mujahideen and Laskhar e Toiba.

His arrest comes three days after two others were nabbed from Murshidabad district.

The police arrested Javed Munshi an Improvised Explosive Device expert and a weapons handler hailing from Jammu and Kashmir (J and K). He was living with his relatives in Canning town in South 24 Parganas and was planning to move to Bangladesh via the Sunderbans, police sources said adding several incriminating documents and other electronic devices were recovered from him.

He had earlier been charged of a murder in the J and K, sources said. Munshi reportedly confessed to having visited Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan on several occasions with fake Pakistan passports, police said.

Earlier, in a joint operation, the Assam STF and the West Bengal STF on Thursday arrested two suspected militants - Abbas Sheikh and Minarul Sheikh - in Murshidabad's Hariharpara, who were linked to another foreign national and 'handler' Muhammad Shaad Radi who was allegedly living in India for the past 10 years --- regularly slipping in and out to Bangladesh.

They were reportedly working towards recruiting moles in North Bengal beyond Malda with their eyes on the Chicken's neck area that connects the North East to the rest of the country.

"The terror modules were planning to create communal tension in this part of the border by inciting people and had been appointing recruits," a senior

police officer said adding they were looking for other terror moles involved in the job.