In a breakthrough of sorts six people out of whom four are Bangladeshis, were arrested from the Birbhum district of Bengal Bengal's for hatching plans to assassinate a Trinamool Congress politician, police said.
“The police arrested the accused persons on Sunday night from Taltore village which is not far from the Viswa Bharati Shanitiniketan a central university created by Poet Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
The police said the Bangladeshis were “supari killers” --- who were working as masons in the nearby areas --- and had been given contract to kill a senior TMC leader from the district.
“The six were arrested on the basis of some specific information we received. Details cannot be divulged for the sake of the investigation,” district superintendent of police Shyam Singh said.
