The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel arrested the six and a Bangladeshi indigenous man at Burunga of Nalitabari upazila early Thursday. They also recovered firearms, ammunition, and bomb-making materials from their possession.

After a two-day interrogation at Mymensingh BDR 45 Rifles Battalion headquarters, the arrestees were handed over to Nalitabari Police Station early Saturday.

The arrested NDFBL members are: Mohishwar, 27, Shombhu, 23, Warao, 21, Hor Kumar, 23, Jiban Kumar, 24, and Thandoi, 22. They hail from different districts of Assam, India.

The arrested Bangladeshi was Imrul Sangma, 22, son of Naoshen Marak of Burunga.

Sub-inspector (SI) Shafiqur Rahman, second officer of Nalitabari Police Station, said acting on a tip off the BDR personnel early Thursday raided the house of Imrul and arrested him along with the six Indian militants.

They arrested Imrul in connection with harbouring the Indian citizens on Bangladesh territory.

After interrogating the arrestees, BDR personnel on Friday night recovered a sub-machinegun (SMG), a barrel of an SMG, 350 bullets of different firearms, seven bomb detonators, 42 electronic circuits for making bombs, four explosive wraps, wires, a large knife, and a map of the forest behind Imrul's house.

BDR filed two cases with Nalitabari Police Station against the arrestees. The magistrate sent the arrestees to jail when Nalitabari police produced them before a Sherpur court Saturday.

Sources said one Sadhon Koch, son of Upendra Koch of Mandharupara of Nalitabari upazila, had been harbouring the NDFBL men in Bangladesh for long. However, he moved the six men to Imrul's house on Wednesday night.