NSA Ajit Doval to visit Burdwan blast site, seek Mamata's help in ongoing probe

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is likely to visit the Burdwan blast site today and also meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to seek her government’s cooperation in the ongoing probe in the incident on October 2 in which the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has claimed hands of a Bangladeshi terror group. The Bardhaman blast is no longer an internal issue that the Trinamool government can deal with, as law and order is a State subject. It is now a question of national security and hence the State is requested to cooperate and facilitate the probe,” a senior security official was quoted as saying in the Hindu. Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Asif Ibrahim and DG National Security Guards (NSG) Jayanta Narayan Choudhury are likely to accompany Doval. Senior officials of RAW and NIA are also expected to be present at the meet. [caption id=“attachment_1768855” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Ajit Doval. Reuters[/caption] Doval would later travel to Burdwan and go to the village where the blast took place on October 2. He will assess the progress of the probe,. The National Investigation Agency had on Friday said that the arrested persons and their associates were members of terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, who were making IEDs to be transported to the neighbouring country for possible terror attacks. The visit by the NIA DG and the scheduled trip of Doval come ahead of the Union government’s decision to send a report to Bangladesh following a request from that country in this regard. Three persons, including two women - one of them the widow of a suspected terrorist who died in the blast - were arrested and interrogated by the NIA. With inputs from Agencies