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With clear links of a deep conspiracy of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen-Bangladesh (JMB) trying to topple the Sheikh Hasina government emerging from the investigations into the Burdwan blasts, India is soon expected to share a detailed dossier with Bangladesh.

Last week, Dhaka had made a request to New Delhi through diplomatic channels after investigations revealed JMB's bigger plot of toppling the government with links reaching to the higher up JMB leaders sitting in Bangladesh, sources said.

Sources said based on the investigations so far by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) a detailed dossier is under preparations that would be shared with Bangladesh.

"An NIA team accompanied with some other senior officials from the agencies may also visit Bangladesh later," top sources told dna. Central agencies are on the job of collating all past information on the JMB which was at one time in 2005, weakened prompting them to trigger serial blasts in Bangladesh then.

Recently released US cables of 2005 by Wikileaks shows that New Delhi was worried about infiltration of radical elements from Bangladesh since 2001 but politics of West Bengal apparently got the better of security prudence.

The problem got worse in the past few years and the bomb factories of Bengal have become a worry for Dhaka too. One question asked is whether Bangladesh is so well-policed that terrorists have to use Indian territory to cook up explosives?

A senior official pointed out that the possibility of targeting both Bangladesh and India is not ruled out, turning the Burdwan case into a case of far-reaching ramifications.

"These and other issues will be discussed by National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval when he visits Kolkata on Monday," a senior official said. NIA DG, Sharad Kumar who returned from Kolkata on Saturday, briefed Doval on late evening on Saturday about the progress in investigation.

The NIA has found that over 50 modules of the JMB are believed to have been working in Bengal alone with links found in Nadia and Murshidabad. The latter, bordering Bangladesh is said to be a hub of mischief-mongers and radical elements from the neighbouring country.

Concerns of radicalisation in West Bengal have been put on record by former US consul general in Kolkata, Henry V Jardine in the cables dated December 2005. The NIA has found at least one Madarsa where radicalisation converted to fledged terrorism.

With Mamata Banerjee led TMC government doing little to reign in mushrooming of radicalised Madarsas, the union home ministry has asked the Border Security Force (BSF) to find out details of all Madarsas located in areas bordering Bangladesh.
 

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