Dhaka team exchange info with NIA
The seven-member team of law enforcement and intelligence agencies of Bangladesh yesterday interacted with officials of India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Kolkata.
The three-day visit of the Bangladesh delegation is aimed at probing the presence of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) link to the October 2 Burdwan blast, and also to help the Indian intelligence agencies locate the Bangladeshi JMB members believed to be hiding in India.
The discussion was held for exchange of information with the NIA on the blast in which JMB members were allegedly involved.
The Bangladeshi team, led by DMP Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam, is likely to interrogate some of those already arrested in Kolkata, including the alleged mastermind Sheikh Rahmatullah alias Sajid, at the NIA's camp office at Salt Lake in Kolkata.
Meanwhile, Chief Judge of Kolkata City Sessions Court Mumtaz Khan yesterday extended the remand of Sajid and another JMB militant Amjad Sheikh by five days to allow the Bangladeshi investigators to quiz them.
The court extended the remand on a plea of NIA's counsel Shyamal Ghosh who contended their custody with the agency was necessary for the Bangladesh sleuths to interrogate them.
The visit follows the one by the NIA's to Dhaka earlier this month.
During the NIA team's visit to Dhaka, both sides exchanged lists of Indian insurgents hiding in Bangladesh and JMB members and top criminals who had taken shelter in India.
The NIA team had also handed over documents to Bangladesh intelligence agencies regarding the presence of JMB members in several districts of West Bengal.
The other members of the team are, GM Azizur Rahman, additional deputy inspector general of special Branch; Col Abu Hena Mostofa, psc, director of National Security Intelligence; Lt Col Mohammed Abul Kalam Azad of Rapid Action Battalion; Mahfuzur Rahman, assistant inspector general of Police Headquarters; Md Ashraful Islam, senior superintendent of police of Criminal Investigation Department; and Maj Mohammad Atiqur Rahman of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI).
Meanwhile, the Kolkata court also extended the remand of Myanmar national Khalid Mohammed by five days to the NIA in connection with the Burdwan blast.
Khalid, Sajid and Amjad were presented before the court yesterday on the expiry of their custody with the NIA.
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