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Kolkata attack mastermind arrested in Dubai, deported to India

In a major breakthrough in the terrorist attack on the American Centre in Kolkata, the prime suspect Farhan Malik alias Aftab Ansari was arrested at the Dubai airport shortly before he was to fly to Islamabad and deported to India on Saturday along with an accomplice Raju Sharma.

Ansari, who claimed responsibility over phone from Dubai for the January 22 attack in which five policemen were killed, was detained by the Dubai authorities the next day when he was contemplating travelling to Pakistan, CBI Director P C Sharma and External Affairs Ministry Special Secretary R M Abhayankar told reporters addressing separate press conferences in Delhi.

Sharma said the CBI took the assistance of the American investigative agency FBI 'whenever it was necessary' for the operation.

Ansari, who possibly has links with Pakistan's ISI and was in contact with Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jaish-e-Mohammed's leader Omar Sheikh, was issued passport from Lahore in the name of Safeer Mohammad Rana, Abhayankar said.

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