India arrests man on train with ties to terrorism

India arrested a man with suspected ties to terrorism on Viswabharati Fast Passenger train at Burdwan station, the Press Trust of India reported today, quoting an unnamed official of Crime Investigation Department or CID.

A resident of Labhpur in West Bengal's Birbhum district, Mosiruddin alias Mosi, has admitted to having links with top Islamic State leaders and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh via e-mails, social networking sites and mobile phone, the officer said.

During a joint interrogation by CID, National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Intelligence Bureau (IB), Mosiruddin had admitted to his connection to Amjad Sheikh, an alleged key member of JMB arrested in 2014 in connection with the Khagragarh twin blast case, the PTI reported quoting sources in the CID.

Mosi came under renewed surveillance after Friday's militant attacks on a restaurant in Dhaka left 20 hostages dead, our Kolkata correspondent Subrata Acharjee reports.

Burdwan district came into the terror map in October 2014 when two suspected JMB terrorists were killed at a rented house in Khagragarh locality of this town while making IEDs.

NIA arrested a mechanical engineering student on suspicion of being a terrorist from Durgapur in March this year. Another person, suspected to be Bangladeshi militant, was also arrested from Asansol later, according to PTI.