Two Bangladeshis have been arrested by police in the Indian state of Bihar, who said that documents of troop deployment in Kashmir and posters of Islamic State were found on the suspects, reports PTI.
Quoting officials of the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), the state news agency said that Khairul Mandal and Abu Sultan, from Jhenaidah, were arrested near the Patna Junction Railway Station on Monday.
In a statement on Tuesday, the ATS said that the duo were associated with banned terror outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Islamic State Bangladesh (ISBD).
Photocopies of orders pertaining to deputation of central forces in Jammu and Kashmir post Pulwama terror attack and pamphlets and posters of terror group ISIS were seized from the duo, it said.
Acting on specific inputs, an ATS team arrested them from a motorcycle stand adjacent to Madni Musafirkhana, a lodge near the railway station. They were produced before the ATS court, which sent them to jail, the PTI report said quoting the statement.
Police have also seized three mobile phones, a memory card, two fake voter identity cards, a fake PAN card, railway tickets from Gaya to Patna and New Delhi to Howrah and also a bus ticket from Kolkata to Gaya from them, it said.
The two had entered the country without any legal document and had procured fake voter identity cards, the statement said, adding they were tasked by the head of JMB to lure and induct Muslim youths into the outfit.
They had visited Kolkata, Kerala, Delhi and Patna and Gaya in Bihar for inducting Muslim youths besides carrying out recce of Buddhist shrines to execute their terror plan, the ATS said.
The two, who said they wanted to join ISIS, had even stayed in Gaya for 11 days for the purpose, said the PTI report.