Staff Reporter :Detectives have arrested three Myanmar nationals of Rohingya community, who are also members of the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh [JMB], for their alleged involvement with the October 2 blast in West Bengal’s Burdwan town.They were identified as Nur Hossain alias Rafiqul Islam, 26, Yasir Arafat, 22, and Omar Karim, 25.”The three Rohingyas were arrested from the Yatimkhana intersection in Lalbagh at around 9:30pm on Sunday. We have recovered five detonators, two Gel bombs and 100 grams of explosives from their possession,” said Krishnapada Roy, Deputy Commissioner of Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division at a press briefing at the DMP Media Centre on Monday.He said that they are members of Rohingya Solidarity Organisation [RSO]. Of them, Omar has been staying in Dhaka for the last 12 years while Nur Hossain for four years and Yasir for the last six months. “We are also investigating their link to the JMB.” The arrestees were presented before the media during the briefing. Two cases have been filed against them under Anti-Terrorism Act and Explosives and Substances Act.”We suspect that the arrestees have close ties with those accused in the Burdwan blast. They trespassed into Bangladesh after the blast. They have got admission in madrasa as a cover up to operate militant activities,” the DB official said.Police said that the three militants have already confessed that Khalid Mohammed, who was earlier arrested in Hyderabad in connection with Burdwan blast, was their ideological ‘guru’. “We found their connection with several radical organizations like Rohingya Solidarity Organization and Arakan Rohingya Union. We have traced them with the information provided by our Indian counterparts,” he said.On October 2, two suspected militants were killed and another injured in an explosion at a house in Kolkata’s Burdwan area.The members of National Investigation Agency [NIA] of India recently arrested a Rohingya national Khaleed alias Khalid Mohammed, 38, from Hyderabad in connection with the Burdwan blast.Besides, the Indian intelligence agencies have traced a wide JMB network and unearthed a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chief Khaleda Zia. It was also found out that the bombs made in Burdwan were intended to be used in Bangladesh.In this backdrop, the chief accused in the case, Sajid, has been arrested. His brother was later arrested from Bangladesh. His wife, JMB’s women wing chief, was also held from Dhaka.After Burdwan blast, the police seized 55 improvised explosive devices, RDX, wrist watch dials and SIM cards. The house reportedly had been turned into a factory to make Improvised Explosive Devices by militants belonging to banned Islamist outfit JMB.A seven-member team of Bangladeshi security officials recently visited India to share information on militancy with Delhi. This visit followed the meeting of four-member NIA team in Dhaka.
