Bangladesh nationals Rubel Ahmed alias Munir ul Islam and Musharraf Hussain alias Musa, suspected of having links with a terror group based in their country, were on Tuesday arrested in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh.
The police said the two were "active members" of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB. They were arrested in a joint operation by the Uttar Pradesh police's Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), Noida police and the West Bengal police from the Surajpur police station area.
They had escaped from Bangalesh in March and started operating out of Noida and Ghaziabad, the ATS said in a statement.
Intelligence inputs from West Bengal police
The arrests followed intelligence inputs from the West Bengal police. The police, however, did not specify the exact nature of terror activities they were involved in. Also, no recoveries were made from the two.
"No recoveries were made initially. No arms, cash or drugs. Things will be known after a thorough joint questioning," U.P. DGP O.P Singh told reporters.
The West Bengal police will present the accused in court and request for a transit remand. A team of the U.P. ATS will go to West Bengal for further questioning and find out about the nature of their activity in Uttar Pradesh and their network.
"We will try to inquire about what were their objectives and who are their aassociates still living here," said an ATS official.
