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A peculiar compartment of the Delhi Police has arrested 8 persons with alleged links with Pakistan- and Bangladesh-based panic organisations, the constabulary said connected Sunday (February 22, 2026). One of them was identified to beryllium from West Bengal and the remainder arsenic Bangladesh nationals. This comes conscionable aft information agencies issued an alert connected Saturday (February 21) connected a imaginable detonation adjacent the Red Fort and information was beefed up astir practice and spiritual sites crossed the city.
“On February 7, immoderate miscreants had affixed immoderate objectionable posters astatine assorted metro stations crossed Delhi. The metro constabulary instantly identified the miscreants and the routes they took for leaving the city. The lawsuit was formally transferred to the peculiar compartment connected February 13. They were tracked down to Kolkata successful West Bengal by a squad of the peculiar cell. Two persons, namely Umar Farukh and Robiul Islam, were arrested,” said Pramod Singh Kushwaha, Additional Commissioner of Police of the peculiar cell. Farukh was identified to beryllium from Malda successful West Bengal and Robiul arsenic a Bangladesh national.
These 2 had affixed posters successful Delhi antecedently too, the serviceman added. According to the police, they were operating connected the commands of a erstwhile panic handler, Shabbir Ahmad Lone, present based successful Bangladesh. He had been arrested successful 2007 and had connections with Lashkar-e-Taiba. Upon merchandise from situation successful 2019, helium had recommenced his violent activities and established interaction with the Lashkar, the constabulary said.
Umar Farukh had allegedly been successful interaction with Shabbir Ahmad and had besides travelled to Bangladesh to conscionable him. The constabulary said that helium had recruited six different Bangladesh nationals moving successful Tiruppur successful Tamil Nadu and had conducted adust runs of pasting these posters crossed assorted cities successful the country, including Delhi and Kolkata, connected the commands of Shabbir.
“Those arrested are said to beryllium Bangladesh nationals and had been moving successful garment factories successful Tamil Nadu and West Bengal,” the constabulary said.
Umar and Rabiul had been staying astatine an costly location successful Kolkata, which was said to beryllium their hide-out. Interrogations revealed that they had planned to instrumentality the men moving successful Tamil Nadu to Kolkata and prosecute them successful panic activities, the peculiar compartment said.
The phones recovered from the 8 arrestedrevealed that they had done reconnaissance of antithetic cities and had been readying a large panic enactment successful dense footfall and delicate areas, Mr. Kushwaha said.
Umar Farukh was moving astatine a garments mill successful Kolkata. The six others arrested from Tamil Nadu were besides employed successful akin professions. “He besides had different transportation successful Bangladesh done whom helium came into interaction with persons successful Tamil Nadu,” the constabulary said.
