Suspected Pakistani national among two held by West Bengal STF at India-Bangladesh border
Acting on specific information, STF personnel conducted a search in the Bangaon area and apprehended Rauf, they said.
West Bengal's Special Task Force (STF) apprehended two individuals near the India-Bangladesh border on Wednesday, officials disclosed. One of the suspects, identified as Rana Rauf alias Wahab Alam, is a suspected Pakistani national from Faisalabad, Pakistan. He was apprehended in Bangaon, North 24 Parganas district, following a search prompted by specific information.
The STF is probing Rauf's suspected ties to Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, and is investigating his activities, contacts, and movements within India. The other arrested individual, from Topsia, was allegedly in contact with Rauf and had aided him in several ways, although his identity remains undisclosed. Rauf is believed to have entered India illegally via Nepal in 2012, staying for a period before settling in West Bengal.
Authorities are probing his alleged tracking of train and armed forces movements in the country and are determining the nature of the information he collected and whether it was shared with external entities. The individual held in Topsia is currently being questioned to ascertain the extent of his association with Rauf and whether others may have been involved.
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