NSA in West Bengal to probe Burdwan blast case
28 Oct 2014 4:44 AM IST
Doval along with officials from Home Ministry, Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and the NSA will personally look into the ongoing investigation.
Doval will be accompanied by the IB chief Asif Ibrahim during his visit, signalling the importance the Central government is giving to these developments. Doval’s first engagement on arrival will be a meeting with the state’s chief minister, Mamata Banerjee.
An alarmed Central government has probably asked Doval to brief the Trinamool Government at length and ‘sensitise’ it to the dangers of what has been unraveling in the state after the Burdwan blasts.
Accompanied by top officials, Doval will even go to Burdwan to personally oversee the probe which has since been handed over to NIA with the consent of the Trinamool government. It is not yet clear whether he will visit Murshidabad where Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) leaders were apparently using a madrasa to train their cadres.
The visit comes in the wake of NIA chief Sharad Kumar’s revelation that they had found some 58 terror modules operating in West Bengal. The investigators have zeroed in on some 180 Bangladeshi nationals working on these modules.
Reports said the two masterminds identified as Anisur and Mufazzal Hussain are Bangladeshi citizens. Doval will also review the information gathered from the confessions of the two captured women militants, who have revealed a huge network of IED manufacturers and an expanding terror network.
The JMB in Bangladesh had been decimated by the Sheikh Hasina government in 2007, but it found probably found a safe haven in West Bengal a few years later.
Two suspected members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh were killed in an accidental blast in a house at Khagragarh village of Burdwan on October 2.
Four people have been arrested so far and the NIA has concluded that the IEDs recovered from suspects were meant to be transported to Bangladesh.
Doval will be accompanied by the IB chief Asif Ibrahim during his visit, signalling the importance the Central government is giving to these developments. Doval’s first engagement on arrival will be a meeting with the state’s chief minister, Mamata Banerjee.
An alarmed Central government has probably asked Doval to brief the Trinamool Government at length and ‘sensitise’ it to the dangers of what has been unraveling in the state after the Burdwan blasts.
Accompanied by top officials, Doval will even go to Burdwan to personally oversee the probe which has since been handed over to NIA with the consent of the Trinamool government. It is not yet clear whether he will visit Murshidabad where Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) leaders were apparently using a madrasa to train their cadres.
The visit comes in the wake of NIA chief Sharad Kumar’s revelation that they had found some 58 terror modules operating in West Bengal. The investigators have zeroed in on some 180 Bangladeshi nationals working on these modules.
Reports said the two masterminds identified as Anisur and Mufazzal Hussain are Bangladeshi citizens. Doval will also review the information gathered from the confessions of the two captured women militants, who have revealed a huge network of IED manufacturers and an expanding terror network.
The JMB in Bangladesh had been decimated by the Sheikh Hasina government in 2007, but it found probably found a safe haven in West Bengal a few years later.
Two suspected members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh were killed in an accidental blast in a house at Khagragarh village of Burdwan on October 2.
Four people have been arrested so far and the NIA has concluded that the IEDs recovered from suspects were meant to be transported to Bangladesh.
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