National Investigating Agency (NIA) has taken over the custody of five alleged members of the banned Jamiat-ul-Muajhideen Bangladesh (JMB) terror outfit in connection with 2014 Burdwan blast.
A Kolkata court handed over their custody to the NIA till October 27 for further interrogation. The Special Task Force of Kolkata police had arrested six people from Assam in the last week of September for allegedly conspiring to carry out blasts in the country and also striking a deal with Bodo militants.
Sources in the anti-terror probe agency said, out of the five arrested, two had been charge-sheeted by the NIA including the main accused Moulana Yusuf, while other three are yet to be chargesheeted.
Moulana Yusuf is said to be the second-in-command of JMB’s West Bengal unit and one of the main accused in the Burdwan blast. On October 2, 2014, a blast had occurred in a house at Khagragarh in which a two persons were killed. Both of them were suspected of having terror links.