NIA arrives in Dhaka for probe

A four- member team of the National Investigation Agency led by its directorgeneral Sharad Kumar arrived in Dhaka on Monday regarding investigations into the Burdwan blast in which the Jamaatul- Mujahideen Bangladesh is said to be involved. The NIA team held a series of meetings with the Bangladesh security agencies since the case is believed to have wider security ramifications for the two countries.

Among those whom the NIA team met was the senior secretary of the home ministry Mohammad Mozammel Haque Khan and his colleagues. The NIA team was also accompanied by a delegation from the Indian high commission in Dhaka. Two suspected terrorists were killed in the October 2 blast in Burdwan district of West Bengal at a Jamaat hideout which was being used a s base to make explosives to be smuggled into Bangladesh.

The NIA has already made significant progress into the case having already arrested the Jamaat’s chief commander for the Burdwan module, Sajid, a Bangladeshi national, Amjad Sheikh and Zia-ul- Haque who allegedly procured explosives and motivated youth for terror groups.

Bangladesh’s elite anticrime Rapid Action Battalion ( RAB) has captured Sajid’s brother Mohammad Monayem. Dhaka has already agreed to share all relevant information with Indian intelligence agencies regarding the incident. Bangladesh’s state minister for home Asaduzzaman Khan has already said that the NIA delegation is expected to join and work together with a Bangladesh team formed with heads of intelligence chiefs in Dhaka.

India will also share with Bangladesh government details of its probe for preventive steps and necessary action needed to be taken by Dhaka to counter the threat posed by JMB.

India’s national security adviser Ajit Doval had visited Burdwan for having a first- hand knowledge of the conspiracy being hatched by JMB to target Bangladesh government from Indian soil.