The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested two suspected Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a Bangladesh-based terror group,
members from Hooghly district of West Bengal for their alleged involvement in the 2014 Burdwan blast case, the agency said on Tuesday.
The arrested members have been identified as Kadar Kazi alias Kadoor and Sajjad Ali.
“Both the JMB members were arrested in different operations on Monday. We arrested Kadar Kazi from Arambagh area in Hooghly district while his associate Sajjad Ali was held in a late night operation,” said an NIA official, adding that Kazi was wanted in the Burdwan blast case and was also declared a proclaimed offender while Ali was involved in the activities of the JMB.
Both the accused will be produced before a special NIA court in Kolkata later on Tuesday.
On October 2, 2014, a bomb had ripped through a house in Khagragarh locality of Burdwan killing two people and exposing a web of Bangladeshis running a virtual arms-and-explosive network in West Bengal, Assam, and Jharkhand.
The NIA in March 2015 submitted a chargesheet in the case, saying terrorists were using territories in the three states to overthrow a democratic government in Bangladesh and replace it with a hardline Islamic regime.
(With agency inputs)