Kolkata Apr 26 PTI A special court here on Tuesday remanded three accused including a village-level Trinamool Congress leader to NIA custody for five days in a case of bomb blast that left two persons killed in January in West Bengals Purba Medinipur districtThe NIA arrested the three persons - Saidul Ali Khan Sheikh Arif and Samar Shankar Mondal - on Monday for their alleged involvement in the incidentMondal is a village-level leader of the Trinamool Congress at Janka in Khejuri where the blast occurred on January 5 before the municipal polls in the stateNIA special court Chief Judge Siddhartha Kanjilal remanded the three accused to five days NIA custody on a prayer by the investigating agency which took over the probe from the state policeNIA lawyer Shyamal Ghosh prayed for their custody for seven days noting that it is required for interrogating them to find out others responsible for the incidentThe case pertains to a bomb explosion on January 5 in the house of accused Kankan Karan within the Khejuri Police Station limits where he and another person Anup Das were killedThree others also suffered injuries when the bombs which they were allegedly manufacturing went offThe NIA re-registered the case in FebruaryThe three accused were part of a criminal conspiracy for making bombs to terrorise the general public according to an NIA official Further investigation in the case is going on he added PTI AMR BDC BDC

Kolkata Aug 24 PTI The National Investigation Agency NIA on Tuesday submitted charge sheet against two accused persons in the Nimtita blast case in which an attempt was made on the life of former West Bengal minister Jakir Hossain Special NIA court judge Jiban Kumar Sadhu allowed a prayer of the investigating agency for carrying out further probe into the explosion that occurred at Nimtita railway station in Murshidabad district on February 17 The final charge sheet was filed before the court against accused Sahidul Islam and Abu Samad within the statutory period of 180 days NIA counsel Shyamal Ghosh said The two accused who are in judicial custody have been charged under sections 307 attempt to murder 326 voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapons or means including explosive substance and 120B criminal conspiracy of IPC and sections of the UAPA and the Explosive Substances Act The NIA submitted before the court that an improvised explosive device IED was used in the attempt on the life of Hossain Hossain then a minister of state for labour in West Bengal was injured along with 20 others when the IED exploded as he entered Nimtita station compound to board a train to Kolkata on the night of February 17 The NIA had taken over investigation in the case from the West Bengal CID in the first week of March PTI AMR NN NN