The National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigating the Burdwan blast case on Tuesday got more success this time recovering five containers of explosives from a pond near Rabindra Bhavan at Keshavganj sources said.
Acting upon the leads provided by Amjad a top terrorist of Jamat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh arrested earlier the NIA sleuths raided a godown at Keshabganj in Burdwan. The investigators were told by the owner of the godown that a few containers had been thrown into the adjacent pond.
“Five such containers were fished out with the help of fishing nets and searches for more possible containers are on” sources said adding the owner of the godown had been arrested.”
The godown was used by Amjad a terror mole who worked in a chemical company in Kolkata and used his acquaintance to procure explosives to store improvised explosive devices which were transported from this storehouse situated by the GT Road to the terror hideout at Khagragarh where an accidental blast on October 2 exposed larger terror plans across Bangladesh and parts of south Asia.
Meanwhile the NIA arrested Khaleed alias Md Khaleed a Myanmarese terrorists in connection with Burdwan blast from Hyderabad, sources said adding he was living there on the basis of fake identity proof.
Khaleed who had trained with Pakistan’s Teherik-I-Taliban before entering India ran a number of terror camps near Chittagong and Bangla-Myanmar border, sources said adding he was arrested following a tip-off from the Bengal Police. This was the seventh arrest made in connection with the Burdwan blast case.
An expert in making explosives Khalid reportedly played a key role in manufacturing and transporting bombs, sources said. Various incriminating materials including documents and ISIS magazines have been recovered from his person it was alleged.