Dhaka, Nov 23: Bangladeshi security forces today arrested a top operative of Pakistan-based LeT who is suspect to be a mastermind in the terror plot targeting the Indian High Commission and US embassy here, officials said.
Mohammad Motalem alis Majnu, a suspected Bangladeshi operative of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was arrested from the capital's Motijheel area in line with confessional statement of three Pakistani LeT operatives arrested two weeks ago, officials said.
"We arrested Mohammad Motalem, alias Majnu, in line with the confessional statement of the three Pakistani LeT operatives," said Monirul Islam, the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Detective Branch.
"We suspect him to be a mastermind of a plot to carryout an attack on the Indian High Commission and US embassy in Dhaka," he said.
Bureau Report
First Published: Monday, November 23, 2009, 12:45