NIA chief visits Burdwan blast site, strategies to nab accused

NIA Chief Sharad Kumar today visited the blast site at Burdwan and reviewed the progress in the agency's probe into the case after which he said strategies have been worked out to arrest the absconding accused persons.
The visit of the Director General of National Investigation Agency to Burdwan town came two weeks after the NIA took over investigations into the blast at Khagragarh on October 2 in which terror link is suspected and also has national and international ramifications.
The blast had claimed the lives of two suspected terrorists of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh.
"I have come to Kolkata to review the investigation into the case. I visited Burdwan and Murshidabad. I had a detailed discussion with my officers. We have evolved strategies regarding arrests of absconding accused persons. I can't reveal anything because it will affect the investigation," Kumar told reporters here on his return to the state capital. He, however, did not elaborate.

He inspected the house where the blast took place, examined the rooms and went up to the terrace of the building.
After spending about 30 minutes there, he visited another house at nearby Mathpara on Badsahi Road where 40 improvised hand grenades were found.

NIA investigators during a search operation jointly with the Burdwan district police found Improvised Explosive Devices from this house belonging to Rezaul Karim.
Three persons, including two women - one of them the widow of a suspected terrorist who died in the blast - were arrested and interrogated by the NIA.
The NIA chief later left for Beldanga in Murshidabad district and visited the house which one of the suspected dead terrorists Shakil had rented.

He also visited 'Burqa Ghar', apparently a burqa making unit run by Ahmed but suspected to have been used by him as a place to meet other accused persons.
The NIA team during its investigation over the last few days seized a large number of books and documents, 12 trunks and a car from a madrasa in Burdwan district where the Khagragarh blast accused were suspected to have been radicalised in Jihadi ideology.
NIA officers had a few days back with the help of the NSG team detonated the improvised hand grenades, which they had found during investigations.