Another Aide Of JeM Suspect Held In WB
The accused, Aditya Singh alias Raju, is a resident of Belilious Road in Howrah and a second-year B.Com student of Umesh Chandra College in Kolkata. The youth was detained on Sunday by the STF officers for questioning and was booked in the case early on Monday. His residence was also searched in the morning
Kolkata: The special task force (STF) of the West Bengal Police arrested a second associate of suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) operative Hamim Mondal, recently held for his alleged plot with his close friend Arpita Sarkar, to target top BJP politicians including ministers of the state.
The accused, Aditya Singh alias Raju, is a resident of Belilious Road in Howrah and a second-year B.Com student of Umesh Chandra College in Kolkata. The youth was detained on Sunday by the STF officers for questioning and was booked in the case early on Monday. His residence was also searched in the morning.
Aditya was remanded in police custody by Burdwan Court following his production before a judge in the afternoon. The STF came to know about him after interrogating Hamim who had hatched a plot to honeytrap and kidnap minister of state for municipal affairs and urban development Umesh Rai's son using Arpita for a ransom.
According to STF sources, Aditya provided various information including a photo and contact of Mr Rai, also a BJP MLA of Howrah North, to Hamim who later passed them to his Pakistan-based handlers to threaten him over phone with dire consequences.
The STF is now probing whether Aditya acted as the informer for own interest or was asked by Hamim to play the role. Meanwhile, the National Investigation Agency officers interrogated Hamim and Arpita, now in police custody, at the STF office in Kolkata.