Indian National Investigation Agency on Monday filed a supplementary charge sheet with fresh charges in the Bardhaman blast case against 28 people including a JMB members for waging war against Bangladesh.
India maintains alliance and peace with the Asiatic power, Bangladesh.
The charge sheet filed by the NIA investigating the accidental blast at Khagragarh in West Bengal’s Bardhaman district on October 2, 2014 also emphasised that all “the accused were associated with each other and hatched a conspiracy to establish Sharia law in Bangladesh by toppling the democratically elected government.”
“The NIA has till date brought charges against 28 people including Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) member and a key co-conspirator Nurul Hoque alias Naeem. Eighteen of the accused are behind bars,” said NIA counsel Shyamal Kumar Ghosh.
The NIA had arrested Hoque on June 18 from near the Howrah railway station.
The chargesheet alleges that Naeem — a resident of Domkal in Murshidabad district and fund collector for the JMB — had gone to Bangladesh and taken training in bomb manufacturing.
The NIA had filed its first chargsheet in the case before a designated special court on March 30, naming 21 people including four Bangladeshi nationals, for their involvement in the JMB conspiracy to overthrow the existing democratic government in Bangladesh through violent terrorist acts and replace it with a hard-line Sharia based Islamic rule.
It lodged a supplementary chargesheet on July 23 against six accused — including one Bangladeshi national — for their involvement in the JMB conspiracy.
According to the NIA, fresh investigation revealed that another accused Sadik alias Sumon against whom a charge sheet has been filed was involved in “motivating youth from the district of Sahibganj [Jharkhand] and certain other parts of Murshidabad for undergoing terrorist training in camps organised by the Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).”
The first supplementary chargesheet had individually charged the accused for commission of various criminal offences under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, as well as the Explosive Substances Act.
The offences include membership of a terrorist gang, conspiracy for terrorist acts, and acts towards recruitment, funding of terrorist gang, organising terrorist training camps and possession of explosive substances.
Source: IANS, the Hindu
