: An NIA team on Monday visited Thanarpara area in Nadia district of West Bengal, close to the Indo-Bangla border, in search of Jahir-ul Sheikh, a Bardhaman blast case accused.
The team gave the Thanarpara police a warrant against Sheikh. It also went to his house and enquired about his whereabouts.
After the Bardhaman blast on October 2 last year, which left two people dead, the NIA team had recovered 41 gelatin sticks from Sheikh’s house, who has been absconding since then.
The NIA on March 21 had arrested Abdul Mazeed Momin in connection with the blast from Sealdah area of Kolkata, taking the total number of persons arrested to 17.
The agency had taken over the case from the West Bengal police a few days after the explosion.
Investigators have found that Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) were being fabricated in the house and smuggled to Bangladesh.
The NIA has so far found that members of the JMB terror group had established their network in different places like Murshidabad, Nadia, Malda, Birbhum, Bardhaman in West Bengal and Barpeta in Assam, Sahibganj and Pakur in Jharkhand.
The NIA also claimed that senior members of JMB had established terrorist training centres and bomb-making units in Beldanga and Mukim Nagar of Murshidabad, Nanur of Birbhum and Khagragarh and Simulia of Bardhaman district. PTI
