Javed Munshi, suspected to be a member of a militant group outfit in Kashmir Valley was arrested from Bengal’s south 24 Parganas district on Sunday.
He was a suspected member of the outlawed ‘Tehreek e Mujahideen’ outfit in Kashmir Valley and was picked up near the Canning Hospital by a Joint team of Jammu and Kashmir Police and Bengal Police. Javed, who professed that he came for a visit to his relative in the Canning town for personal reasons, had been allegedly involved in subversive activities in the Kashmir valley and was wanted by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for a long time.
The ‘Tehreek e Mujahideen’ is regulated from Pakistan and has contacts with other militant outfits in the valley. The relative of Javed said he was a resident of Srinagar but he was not aware of his links with any terror groups and if the charges are discovered to be true, law should take its course.
The police said that the arrested man would be produced at Alipore Court for Transit remand. This arrest followed the recent arrests of eight suspects of the terrorist outfit Ansar-al-Islam Bangladesh who were planning to attack the connecting area of West Bengal’s Siliguri with the north-eastern states.
