Burdwan blast: Barpeta quack, NIA’s ‘most wanted’ man, has four bank accounts

But, there has been no transaction in all the four accounts since August, when he had disappeared from his village along with his wife Sajina and two children. Interestingly, Alom was arrested by the local police on July 28, the day he had organized a namaz one day ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, which had led to a clash between his supporters and a section of villagers.

Confirming this, sources in NIA said Alom had obtained bail the very day he was arrested, and disappeared two or three days later. That was more than two months before the Burdwan blast, only after which it was found that one of the 12 accused persons involved in that incident was Sahanur Alom of Barpeta.

While Alom first left his village with his family reportedly for his in-laws place after a section of fellow villagers looked at him with suspicion as he tried to propagate the Salafi tradition of Eid, he probably disappeared further after the October 2 blast.

“We have already found lot of evidence that he was part of the JMB module that was linked to the Burdwan blast. That includes evidence about Alom’s close contact with Shakil Ahmed, one of the two persons who were killed in the Burdwan blast,” a source in the NIA said today.

The NIA is now examining transactions in the four different bank accounts that it has discovered in Sahanur Alom’s name, and as also the sources of deposit. “Most of the money has been already withdrawn, but we are now looking the sources from where money was deposited,” the NIA source said. Another question before the NIA is: why did Alom, who apparently earned his living as a quack dentist in village markets, open four bank accounts?

NAI officials who conducted search in his house in village Chatala found it to be a well-furnished place, complete with TV and dish antenna, refrigerator, and a motorcycle among other items. Very few families in the neighbourhood have houses as good as Alom’s.