Burdwan blast accused in NIA net
Bengaluru: Officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested a 28-year-old terror suspect allegedly involved in connection with the 2014 Burdwan bomb blast case in Doddaballapura town in Bengaluru Rural district.
The accused, Habibur Rehman SK alias Habibur SK alias Sheikh alias Habibur Kabore Shaik, is a native of Muluk Shantipalli village in Birbhum, West Bengal, and is suspected to be a member of the Jamat-ul Mujahideen, a Bangladesh- based terror outfit.
NIA officials, who were on his trail, managed to nab him from a local mosque in Doddaballapura, where he had taken shelter while on the run.
In 2015, the NIA had charge-sheeted Rahman accusing him of conspiring with Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to wage war against the government of India and Bangladesh.
The accused was produced before the NIA court in Bengaluru and taken to Kolkata on a five-day transit warrant for further interrogation.
Rahman was involved in preparing a crude bomb at the house of Hasan Choudhari at Khagragarh town in Burdwan town on October 2014.
The bomb exploded while it was being assembled, killing two persons and injuring a few others.