NEW DELHI, Feb. 23 -- The Special Cell of the Delhi Police said it has dismantled a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) module comprising "highly radicalised operatives" in a multistate counter-terror operation, and arrested eight operatives-most of them Bangladeshi nationals who have reportedly entered India illegally on forged identities and were operating under a Pakistan-backed handler, officers aware of the developments said. Additional commissioner of police (Special Cell) Pramod Singh Kushwah said coordinated raids were conducted at Kolkata in West Bengal, and Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu. Seven are Bangladeshi nationals, and one is an Indian national from West Bengal. "The module was being directed by Shabir Ahmad Lone alias Raja alias Kashmiri, a trained LeT militant from Jammu and Kashmir, who is currently based in Bangladesh," Kushwah said. The arrests were made in a probe initiated on a complaint lodged on February 8 by a CISF shift in-charge at the Supreme Court Metro station, alleging pro-Pakistan and pro-terror posters being pasted at the Janpath Metro Station. During verification, similar posters were found at multiple locations across Delhi, police said. The posters, police said, contained photographs glorifying slain alleged Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist Burhan Wani in Urdu and also some pertaining to Kashmir. A case was registered under sections 152, 196 and 197 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and Section 3 of the DPDP Act-pertaining to threat to sovereignty and national security. Police said that regardless of the poster case, they were on alert due to recent political developments in Bangladesh. "Application of human and technical intelligence yielded actionable inputs regarding the movement of suspects in Delhi and Gurugram. The trail was developed and their location was traced to Kolkata," Kushwah said. On February 15, a raid was conducted at Majherpara, Hatiara Gote in Kolkata, leading to the arrest of Umar Faruk, 31, a resident of Malda, West Bengal, and Robiul Islam, 31, a Bangladeshi national from Thakurgaon district. Questioning them led to a larger network in Tiruppur in Tamil Nadu. On February 21, six Bangladeshi nationals from Bogura, Mohammed Mizanur Rehman, 32, Mohammed Sefayat Hossain, 34, Mohammed Zahidul Islam, 40, Mohammed Liton, 40, Mohammed Uzzal, 27, and Umar Faruk, 32, were arrested. Police said that preliminary interrogation revealed that Umar Faruk came in contact with Shabir Ahmad Lone in March 2025 and was allegedly indoctrinated to spearhead LeT operations in India. "Shabir's plan was to use Bangladeshi nationals who had assumed Indian identities to carry out terror strikes. In December 2025, Umar was directed to conduct reconnaissance of important installations," Kushwah said....