Bangladesh militant group linked to Mumbai attack?

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New Delhi: Security officials investigating last week’s terror attack on Mumbai have found leads in West Bengal.

Preliminary investigation suggests that at least three SIM cards recovered from the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai were bought from Mirza Ghalib Street in Kolkata.

Seven other SIM cards were bought in Maheshtala in 24 Parganas district. All the SIM cards were bought in the name of same person, Hossain-ur Rahman, a resident of Basirhat, a town in West Bengal right on the Indo-Bangla border.

Security officials tell CNN-IBN the possible involvement of Bangladesh-based militant group Harkat-ul-Jihadi or Huji is being probed extensively after the discovery of the SIM cards.

Huji has been cooperating with the Laskhar-e-Toiba, the Pakistan based terrorist group which is suspected of sending the terrorists who attacked Mumbai.

Interestingly, some time before the Mumbai blasts, the West Bengal police received information from the Tripura police that a gang of Huji militants had entered Bengal.

Another lead the investigators have got is a cell phone conversation intercept in end-November showed that a group of terrorists, possibly Huji, were discussing possible targets in Kolkata.

These included Nicco Park and Sector 5 IT hub in Kolkata and also the Victoria Memorial. Kolkata police sources say there's no reason to panic but they are taking the warning information seriously.