Dhaka, Oct. 18 -- The three arrested on Wednesday night are Md Abdulla, 24, Shafiqul Islam alias Mollaji, 38, and Mostafa Mohsin Arif, 25.

They had been members of the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB but later joined the group's revived faction Neo-JMB after it carried out the July 1, 2016 attack on a cafe in Dhaka's Gulshan, according to police.

They joined the new group through Soheil Mahfuz, a "militant leader" who is behind bars now on charges of supplying bombs used in the Gulshan attack, police's Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime unit Deputy Commissioner Saiful Islam said on Thursday.

Mollaji and Arif had received "militancy training" in India as well, he said.

"A section of the militant group hides in India someti...