Two days after NIA Director General Sharad Kumar visited the Burdwan blast site, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is scheduled to visit the state on Monday and likely to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
According to state secretariat sources, Doval, who will arrive in the city on Monday morning, is likely to meet Banerjee and senior state officials at the state secretariat in the afternoon. He is then expected to travel to Burdwan and go to the village where the blast took place on October 2. Doval will assess the progress of the probe, official sources said.
The National Investigation Agency had on Friday said that the arrested persons and their associates were members of terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, who were making IEDs to be transported to the neighbouring country for possible terror attacks. The visit by the NIA DG and the scheduled trip of Doval come ahead of the Union government's decision to send a report to Bangladesh following a request from that country in this regard.
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.
NSG chief Jayanta Chaudhury and IB chief Saeed Asif Ibrahim. According to reports, Doval will collect information so that Indian government can also send a report to Bangladesh.
Meanwhile after more than three weeks of the blast, police has finally got wind where one of the main suspect Yousuf is staying. According to reports, Yousuf is hiding in North Bengal. He is trying to escape to either Nepal or Bangladesh from his current hideout. Investigators believe he will prefer Nepal as Bangladesh may turn out to be a hot potato for him.
After interrogating two accused suspected to be involved in Burdwan blast, police got wind of Yousuf who used to run a terror training centre in Simulia in the garb of a religious institution. Investigators believe Yousuf is key to trace the complete story of the terror plot. Police on Sunday arrested another accused in connection with the Burdwan blast. The person arrested, Amjad Ali, allegedly supplied chemicals to the kingpin of the terror plot and was working as a medical representative.
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