India's Burdwan explosion on border alert

The Dhaka Times Desk India's Burdwan explosion has alerted the border. This decision was taken at a high-level meeting of the police in Kolkata on Monday.

After the meeting, Director General of Kolkata Police GMP Reddy said in a press conference, "All police stations are being alerted about any kind of sabotage attempt."

BD News reported that Burdwan, Howrah and Sealdah stations have also been brought under the alert, RK Gupta, General Manager of India's Eastern Railway, told the media. The Indian Border Guard has already taken extra precautions along the border to coincide with the recently concluded Durga Puja.

Top Indian intelligence officials have informed Bangladesh's National Security Intelligence Agency (NSI) and DGFI in this regard, according to a Hindustan Times report.

Besides Bangladesh, West Bengal shares borders with Nepal and Bhutan. This state of India is bordered by the states of Assam, Bihar, Sikkim, Jharkhand and Odisha.

A Telegraph report on Monday said that the house in Burdwan where the bomb-making incident took place also had an office of the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal.

In that incident, two men, Shamim alias Shakeel Ahmed and Swapan alias Subhan Mondal, who Indian intelligence believes to be members of a branch of JMB in Bangladesh, were killed.

However, a report in Anandabazar newspaper said that Shakeel's house is in Barbajpur of Karimpur in Nadia. On the other hand, Subhan's house is in East Medinipur and Abdul's house is in Mohammadbazar, Birbhum.

Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress has already been accused of sheltering Jamaat leaders who caused violence in the January 5 elections in Bangladesh. Even MPs elected from Trinamool have been accused of collaborating with Jamaat and radical Islamist leaders.

It should be noted that two people were killed in an explosion in Khagragarh, Burdwan, India on October 2, who Indian intelligence suspects are members of a branch of the banned organization Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). Indian police have so far arrested 3 people in the incident of explosion.