KOLKATA: West Bengal Police, on Monday, arrested eight Bangladeshi nationals from Murshidabad district who had entered the country illegally.
At the same time, three individuals were also arrested for allegedly facilitating the illegal entry of these Bangladeshi nationals. The arrests were made from two different locations.
"Eight Bangladeshi nationals and three Indians who sheltered them have been arrested from two different locations, " confirmed additional superintendent Lalbag, Raspreet Singh. The Bangladeshi nationals hailed from Chapai Nababganj and Rajshahi in Bangladesh, known as the hubs of fundamentalists Bangladeshi groups like Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HUT) and Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).