Bengal STF arrests college student over links with Jaish operative Hamim Mondal
Preliminary investigations suggested that Singh had shared information about Rai’s movements and pictures of Rai and his son
The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) has apprehended a college student, Aditya Singh, on Monday, in connection with alleged ties to Jaish-e-Mohammed operative Hamim Mondal. Singh resided at an apartment in Howrah’s Belilious Road, according to a police spokesperson. Prior to this, Mondal was apprehended in East Burdwan district by the STF on Friday, and Arpita Sharma was arrested in Sahibganj, Jharkhand, on Saturday, both for their suspected connections to a Pakistan-based terror module led by Shahzad Bhatti.
The police assert that Singh was in the process of establishing a network within West Bengal, with the intention of targeting Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. Mondal had been assigned the task of monitoring the Chief Minister's movement patterns and identifying times when he might be unguarded. Additionally, it was reported that Singh sought to entrap a minister from Howrah district by using bureaucratic influence and abducting his son.
The officer further revealed that a minister from Howrah was also targeted, and it was believed that Singh was attempting to infiltrate a protest at Jantar Mantar, a site where students had gathered to protest the leaked National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) paper and alleged irregularities in the examination. The Bhatti gang operates in close collaboration with the Pakistani intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and other terrorist organizations.
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