One of the Al Qaeda terror moles Abu Sufiyan arrested from Murshidabad had constructed a secret tunnel inside his house at Raninagar, National Investigation Agency sources that busted the network said adding the tunnel apparently made to store explosives was about 7-8 feet deep.
Sufiyan’s kin however contradicted the claim saying it was not a tunnel but a newly constructed sanitary tank still not in use.
“They came and arrested my husband without any proof… you can ask the locals who would vouch for his honesty and straightforwardness. He never killed a crow
. Insofar as the tunnel is concerned it is a new sanitary tank which was covered with a tin and would be put to use soon,” Nrunnisa Biwi the wife of Sufiyan said.
A neighbour Manjur Sheikh too said that he had “personally gone into the tunnel after the news became public but it did not look like a tunnel. It is more of a tank chamber than anything else.”
Sufiyan is one of the six Qaeda terror moles arrested on Saturday from Murshidabad bordering Bangaldesh. His other three cronies including mastermind Murshid was pocked up from Ernakulam district of Kerala from where he operated the network under the instructions of one Hamza currently being looked for the NIA.
Murshid too is from Murshidabad and was directed by his ‘handlers’ to recruit people for some bigger plans.
NIA sources also informed having recovered two Kashmir sim cards from the persons of Najmul Sakib and Atiur two other moles who were second year science students. Huge monetary transactions were made from their accounts sources said.
A Kolkata court granted a transit remand for the accused who would be produced at the Patiala House Court in Delhi before September 25, said Shyamal Ghosh NIA advocate.
Meanwhile, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Shankar once again attacked the Trinamool Congress Government for reducing the State into a “home to illegal bomb-making.”
Attacking the State Government for the worsening law and order situation he said “State has become home to illegal bomb making that has the potential to unsettle democracy,” adding police were “busy in carrying out political errands and taking on the opposition. Those at helm of the WB Police cannot escape their accountability for this alarming decline in law and order”Alleging that the Director General of Police was taking an “ostrich stance” which was “very disturbing,” he said “How far distanced is DGP from reality is cause of worry. His ‘Ostrich Stance’ is very disturbing. … Problem is with those at the helm who are unmindful of conduct and are politically guided.”
Elsewhere, in what the ruling Trinamool Congress leadership smelt a “politics of victimisation” the NIA had issued summons to the TMC jangal mahal leader Chhatradhar Mahato who was arrested by the Left Government under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act for his alleged links with the Maoists and was released from jail very recently after spending more than a decade in incarceration.
“It seems that the BJP is nervous about Mahato’s joining the TMC and his influence in Jangal Mahal where the party claims to have made some inroads. So they are using NIA,” a Trinamool leader said.
