The five arrested operatives of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) had sent money to the Teheerk-A-Taliban, an umbrella organisation of various Islamist militant groups based in Pakistan, and were planning to spread their network in Bangladesh.
It is also revealed that the investigating agency has detected the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number of the mobile phone used by the operatives.
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) sleuths during the interrogation came to know that the SIMI operatives sent `3 lakh to the Teheerk-A-Taliban, sources said.
Police personnel of different States and sleuths of te National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Intelligence Bureau (IB) are now quizzing the SIMI operatives, including a woman.
Meanwhile, police personnel of other States are all set to take the five on remand as their 13-day remand here would end on March 1.
On February 16, Mohammad Khalid, Amjad Khan, Zakir Khan and Mahboob Khan and his mother Najma, were arrested from Rourkela after a prolonged gun battle.