Police said they include four wanted in connection with the 2014 Burdwan blasts in West Bengal. "Special Task Force of Kolkata police have arrested six Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) terrorists," Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Visal Garg told the media in West Bengal capital, reports IANS. A senior police officer said that the arrested JMB activists were running sleeper cells across the eastern and north-eastern states and were plotting an attack in the region. The arrests are significant as among the six arrested terrorists, one is Anwar Hussain Farooq, the head of the outfit's West Bengal unit, and Yusuf Sheikh, the second in command in the state. On the other hand, Kalam was held from Coochbehar station in north Bengal on Sunday while Jahidul was arrested a day earlier from Assam's Cachar district on Saturday.

Source: bd News24 September 26, 2016 11:26 UTC