NIA team visits Jehanabad in connection with Bodhgaya bombs

A National Investigating Agency (NIA) team today visited this central Bihar district and interrogated two youths in connection with the recent planting of bombs at Kaalchakra Maidan in Bodhgaya, a senior police official said.
Two high-intensity bombs were found at the Kaalchakra Maidan in Bodhgaya on January 19, shortly after Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama had given a discourse at the ground.
The explosives were deactivated two days later by means of controlled explosion by a team of NSG.
The NIA team visited Kutuban Chak locality in the Town police station area, where it interrogated two local youths who were said to have known some of the suspects in the bombs case, Superintendent of Police, Jehanabad, Manish Kumar said.

Kumar said the local youths, Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Saddam, were said to have been in touch with suspects - whose identity was not known.
The two lived in the same locality and had helped the suspects get a rented accommodation some time back, the SP said adding that it was not known whether the youngsters knew about their friends' involvement in terrorist activities.
Bodhgaya had earlier been rocked by a series of blasts inside the Maha Bodhi Temple Complex in 2013 wherein five persons including two Buddhist monks were injured.