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The north Bengal district of Jalpaiguri has become a terror-breeding hub, National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval told West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday after visiting the site of this month’s explosion in Burdwan.
Doval also handed over a list of 180 Bangladeshi militants hiding in West Bengal as the state government said it would cooperate with a central probe into the blast.
Sources said Doval and other members of a delegation comprising the country’s top security and intelligence chiefs told the chief minister about how operatives of the Jamaat- ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) used West Bengal as a safe haven over the past two years.
“The central representatives also handed over a list of unrecognised madrasas in the state operating as terror-breeding hubs,” said a state government source on condition of anonymity.
The NSA-led delegation went to the blast site in the southeastern Bengal town of Burdwan and took stock of investigations.
“The chief minister and the West Bengal government have assured that the Centre and the state will work together in unearthing the entire case and take all kinds of action to see that such cases are investigated properly and prevented in future,” Prakash Mishra, special secretary for internal security in the Union home ministry, told the media after the meeting with Banerjee.
The NSA and his team also referred to the alleged links of a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal with two Bangladeshi militant groups – JMB and Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (JIB).
The chief minister initially resisted a central probe into the October 2 blast that exposed a terror network of Bangladeshi infiltrators spread over several West Bengal districts. The two people killed while making bombs in the Burdwan house were found to be JMB operatives.
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) report says that the JMB, a shadowy organisation formed in 2005, has plans to establish an Islamic state encompassing Bangladesh and Murshidabad, Nadia and Malda districts of West Bengal.
Read: ‘100 made-in-India IEDs sent to Bangladesh’
Three people, including two women were arrested in the Burdwan case and were interrogated by the NIA that took over the probe after the state government faced a barrage of criticism for allegedly mishandling the investigation.
The main opposition party, CPI (M), has accused Banerjee of allowing extremist elements to flourish in the state for vote-bank politics.
Apart from SIM cards, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), detonators and watch dials, some leaflets and papers with names of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri and Chechen rebels were reportedly recovered from the Burdwan house, which the suspected militants had rented a few months ago.
The central delegation’s visit comes as the Union government prepares to send a report on the issue to Bangladesh following a request from the Sheikh Hasina government.
Ajit Doval meets Mamata, calls Bengal terror-breeding hub - Hindustan Times
Doval also handed over a list of 180 Bangladeshi militants hiding in West Bengal as the state government said it would cooperate with a central probe into the blast.
Sources said Doval and other members of a delegation comprising the country’s top security and intelligence chiefs told the chief minister about how operatives of the Jamaat- ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) used West Bengal as a safe haven over the past two years.
“The central representatives also handed over a list of unrecognised madrasas in the state operating as terror-breeding hubs,” said a state government source on condition of anonymity.
The NSA-led delegation went to the blast site in the southeastern Bengal town of Burdwan and took stock of investigations.
“The chief minister and the West Bengal government have assured that the Centre and the state will work together in unearthing the entire case and take all kinds of action to see that such cases are investigated properly and prevented in future,” Prakash Mishra, special secretary for internal security in the Union home ministry, told the media after the meeting with Banerjee.
The NSA and his team also referred to the alleged links of a Rajya Sabha member from West Bengal with two Bangladeshi militant groups – JMB and Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (JIB).
The chief minister initially resisted a central probe into the October 2 blast that exposed a terror network of Bangladeshi infiltrators spread over several West Bengal districts. The two people killed while making bombs in the Burdwan house were found to be JMB operatives.
A National Investigation Agency (NIA) report says that the JMB, a shadowy organisation formed in 2005, has plans to establish an Islamic state encompassing Bangladesh and Murshidabad, Nadia and Malda districts of West Bengal.
Read: ‘100 made-in-India IEDs sent to Bangladesh’
Three people, including two women were arrested in the Burdwan case and were interrogated by the NIA that took over the probe after the state government faced a barrage of criticism for allegedly mishandling the investigation.
The main opposition party, CPI (M), has accused Banerjee of allowing extremist elements to flourish in the state for vote-bank politics.
Apart from SIM cards, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), detonators and watch dials, some leaflets and papers with names of al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri and Chechen rebels were reportedly recovered from the Burdwan house, which the suspected militants had rented a few months ago.
The central delegation’s visit comes as the Union government prepares to send a report on the issue to Bangladesh following a request from the Sheikh Hasina government.
Ajit Doval meets Mamata, calls Bengal terror-breeding hub - Hindustan Times
