NIA files charge sheet in Burdwan blast case
March 30, 2015  14:31
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The NIA today filed a charge sheet in a special court in Kolkata against 21 people, including four Bangladeshis, in the Burdwan terror blast case.

The accused, sources said, have been charged for offences relating to terrrorist acts, conspiracy, recruitment, funding and running of terrorist camps, possession of arms and explosives and offences related to forgery, Foreigners Act and Passport Act. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has till now arrested 17 people in this case.

The case pertains to blasts that took place inside a house in West Bengal's Burdwan district on October two last year leaving two persons dead. With international links surfacing, the central probe agency took over the case from state police a few days after the explosion.

Investigators have found that Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) were being fabricated in the house and later smugged to neighbouring Bangladesh.
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