Two more arrests in blast case today

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Press Trust of India Burdwan (WB)
Last Updated : Oct 10 2014 | 3:46 PM IST
Two persons were arrested today for selling SIM cards to the terror suspects in the Burdwan blast taking the number of those apprehended in the case to six.
Police said Ashok Mukherjee and Moinul Islam, who sell SIM cards and mobile phone sets, were arrested from their homes at Ketugram in Burdwan district, about 66 km from here, the police said.
They were held after interrogating the four arrested, including two women, in the case.
The police have also seized copies of voter ID cards and other documents from their shops.
The duo was later produced before the SDJM court in Katwa which remanded them into three days in police custody for further investigation.
Two suspected militants - Shakil Ahmed and Sovan Mandal were killed and another person Hasan Saheb was injured in the explosion on October 2 in a house at Khagragarh in Burdwan town.
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First Published: Oct 10 2014 | 3:46 PM IST

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