The Special Task Force of West Bengal Police has arrested a college student and detained five others from the Panagarh area in Paschim Bardhaman district for their alleged links with a Bangladesh-based terror outfit. A senior officer said in Kolkata today, the youth, a second-year Computer Science student, was picked up from his Panagarh residence last evening for his alleged links with the banned Islamist organisation Shahadat-e al Hiqma of Bangladesh. Based on inputs provided by him during his interrogation, STF sleuths nabbed five more persons from the Nababghat area in the same district. The officer said, the arrested person was trying to recruit youths from Paschim and Purba Bardhaman districts for the terror outfit. A case has been filed against the arrested youth under UAPA and several clauses of IPC and he has been sent to 14-day STF custody by Durgapur ACJM court.
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