Guwahati, India, Dec 6 (Agencies): A key suspect in the Burdwan blast case was remanded to 14 days police custody by a Kamrup court.
Police had tracked down and arrested Shahnoor Alam on Friday night from a village in Nalbari district. He was in the custody of the police and the National Investigative Agency.
Alam, an operative of the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, a banded Bangladeshi group, is also believed to have been involved in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh and stage a coup there.
A senior intelligence officer said Alam was hiding in a relative’s house when he was arrested.
Security officials uncovered the plot against Hasina in October after two members of the JMB were killed in an explosion while making crude bombs in Burdwan.
Alam had been on the run since October 2. His 36-year-old wife, also a suspect slapped with similar charges, was arrested in Guwahati on November 8.
JMB was thought to have been lying low since authorities cracked down on it after it detonated nearly 500 bombs almost simultaneously on one day in 2005 across Bangladesh, including in the capital, Dhaka.
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