The Bengal police have arrested three persons, including a Bangladeshi national, from Dum Dum-Baguiati area in northern fringes of Kolkata with a number of fake PAN cards and passports some of which bear Pathankot and Jalandhar address, police sources said not ruling out terror links. The incident assumes importance against the backdrop of last week’s Pathankot attack by Pakistani terrorists which left six security personnel dead.
The accused who allegedly worked as conduits for supplying fake documents were arrested on Thursday and as seven fake passports carrying Punjab addresses were found on them the police have started thorough investigation in the case a senior official said adding the case had been transferred to the CID for thorough investigations.
Sheikh Hafiz one of the accused who is a Bangladeshi could be linked to Jamat-ul Mujahideen, police suspected. “Investigations are going on. Though no terror links have been found till now things are not ruled out completely” the senior officer said.
The arrests came hours before an arms factory was unearthed at Mullickpur in South 24 Parganas. The police arrested Md Mehtab, Hirak Khan and Md Aftab with about 40 pistols of 9 and 7mm bores along with live magazines and Rs 2 lakh sources said.