Ajit Doval visits Burdwan blast site, meets Mamata Banerjee

Kolkata/Burdwan (WB): The country’s security and intelligence chiefs including National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Monday visited the blast site at Burdwan in West Bengal and later met Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, conveying that the Centre has taken the terror act seriously.

Ms Banerjee on her part assured the Centre of all cooperation to fight terrorism and promised to work together.

The NIA on Friday said it had completed initial phase of probe in the case pertaining to the bomb blast in a house at Khagragarh village in Burdwan district and that it indicated the involvement of the cadre of terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh (JMB).

“We discussed the issue with the CM. She assured us to extend all cooperation and work together with the Centre to fight terrorism,” Prakash Mishra, special secretary in the  Union home ministry told reporters after the meeting.

Mr Doval, Mr Mishra, National Security Guards (NSG) DG J.N. Chowdhury and two senior intelligence officers from the Centre and the state that included Intelligence Bureau director Syed Asif Ibrahim met Ms Banerjee.

During the investigation, the NIA has found that banned terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh was trying to set up bases in different locations and recruiting locals, sources said.

Besides, the module in Burdwan managed to transport six IED consignments to Bangladesh to be used for terrorist activities, they added.

Investigators are trying to find out whether the explosives, found in Burdwan, were exclusively meant for Bangladesh or to be used somewhere in India, the source said.