New Delhi: A four-member team of the National Investigation Agency led by its director-general Sharad Kumar arrived in Dhaka on Monday regarding investigations into the Burdwan blast in which the Jamaat-ul-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 made significant progress into the case having arrested the Jamaat’s chief commander for the Burdwan module, Sajid.
