Wanted in Burdwan blast case arrested in Kolkata

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ANI Kolkata (West Bengal) [India]
Last Updated : Sep 14 2017 | 10:48 PM IST

In a major success for security forces, a wanted in 2014 Burdwan blast case has been arrested by Special Task Force (STF) unit of Kolkata on Thursday.

The arrested has been identified as Burhan, who was apprehended from Bepin Behari Ganguly Street from Kolkata's Muchipara.

The National Investigative Agency (NIA) had announced a bounty of Rs. 3, 00,000 on his head.

On October 2, 2014, an explosion occurred in a house in the Khagragarh locality of West Bengal's Burdwan, which, as per reports, was considered as militant group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh's (JMB) operating point.

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First Published: Sep 14 2017 | 10:48 PM IST

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