Sri Lankan men without valid documents arrested in Kolkata
According to reports, the Sri Lankans did not have valid documents to stay in India. Police are suspecting that those men are ex-members of
Sri Lanka's militant organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Though police had arrested them on Friday night, the news was officially announced on Sunday.
One senior official of Kolkata Police's STF told IBNS: "We have arrested five citizens of Sri Lanka who are the residents of Jafna.
Two Indian men were also with them. They are the residents of Tamil Nadu. They were guiding the Sri Lankans. The came to Kolkata on Aug 13. We are interrogating them to know about the reason of their visit to the city."
Two more men were with them in the hotel who checked out just before the police reached there, sources said.
All were produced in the Banshall Court on Sunday and were sent to police custody till Aug 24. Police have started investigation into the matter.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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