Burdwan blast mastermind’s wife arrested in Bangladesh

Dhaka: In a prize catch, the wife of Burdwan blast prime accused and the chief of the women’s wing of the banned JMB militant group was arrested on Sunday in Bangladesh along with three others.
Fatema Begum, who confessed to training at least 25 women militants in India, is said to be the wife of Sajid, Burdwan blast prime accused, said Masu-dur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
She was the women’s wing chief of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, Rahman said. Sajid is the prime accused in the October 2 blast at Burdwan in West Bengal that left two people dead. “She was held along with three of her associates from Dhaka’s Sadarghat along with explosives, bomb-making materials and jihadi books,” Rahman was quoted as saying by The Daily Star.
In response to a query, police spokesman Monirul Islam said India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) provided significant intelligence on Begum.
The four-member team of officials of the NIA that visited Dhaka last week to probe the Burdwan blast plot had provided some names and up to 15 mobile phone numbers to their counterparts here to help them in cracking the case.
Begum confessed they were storing explosives aiming to launch attacks in line with the directives of their chiefs elsewhere in Bangladesh and India, Islam said. (PTI)