Delhi Police Particular Cell arrests two accused from West Bengal concerned in planning a terror plot linked with Pakistan’s intelligence company, ISI, and Bangladeshi terrorist organisations, in New Delhi on Sunday (February 22, 2026).
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A particular cell of the Delhi Police has arrested eight individuals with alleged hyperlinks with Pakistan- and Bangladesh-based terror organisations, the police stated on Sunday (February 22, 2026). Considered one of them was recognized to be from West Bengal and the remaining as Bangladesh nationals. This comes simply after safety businesses issued an alert on Saturday (February 21) on a attainable explosion close to the Purple Fort and safety was beefed up round heritage and non secular websites throughout town.
“On February 7, some miscreants had affixed some objectionable posters at varied metro stations throughout Delhi. The metro police instantly recognized the miscreants and the routes they took for leaving town. The case was formally transferred to the particular cell on February 13. They had been tracked right down to Kolkata in West Bengal by a workforce of the particular cell. Two individuals, specifically Umar Farukh and Robiul Islam, had been arrested,” stated Pramod Singh Kushwaha, Further Commissioner of Police of the particular cell. Farukh was recognized to be from Malda in West Bengal and Robiul as a Bangladesh nationwide.
These two had affixed posters in Delhi beforehand too, the officer added. In response to the police, they had been working on the instructions of a former terror handler, Shabbir Ahmad Lone, now based mostly in Bangladesh. He had been arrested in 2007 and had connections with Lashkar-e-Taiba. Upon launch from jail in 2019, he had recommenced his terrorist actions and established contact with the Lashkar, the police stated.
Umar Farukh had allegedly been in contact with Shabbir Ahmad and had additionally travelled to Bangladesh to fulfill him. The police stated that he had recruited six different Bangladesh nationals working in Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu and had performed dry runs of pasting these posters throughout varied cities within the nation, together with Delhi and Kolkata, on the instructions of Shabbir.
“These arrested are stated to be Bangladesh nationals and had been working in garment factories in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal,” the police stated.
Umar and Rabiul had been staying at an costly home in Kolkata, which was stated to be their hide-out. Interrogations revealed that that they had deliberate to take the boys working in Tamil Nadu to Kolkata and have interaction them in terror actions, the particular cell stated.
The telephones recovered from the eight arrestedrevealed that that they had achieved reconnaissance of various cities and had been planning a significant terror exercise in heavy footfall and delicate areas, Mr. Kushwaha stated.
Umar Farukh was working at a clothes manufacturing facility in Kolkata. The six others arrested from Tamil Nadu had been additionally employed in related professions. “He additionally had one other connection in Bangladesh by way of whom he got here into contact with individuals in Tamil Nadu,” the police stated.
Printed – February 22, 2026 08:07 pm IST
