Two more convicted in Burdwan blast case

A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Kolkata convicted two more accused in the Burdwan blast case of 2014 and sentenced them to seven years of imprisonment. Mustafizzur Rehman who was arrested on December 26 in 2018 and Kadar Kazi who was arrested on January 28, 2019, were also fined Rs 5,000. Both the accused were found guilty under different sections of IPC and UA (P) Act. The case pertains to a powerful bomb (IED) blast that took place on the first floor of a house in the busy Khagragarh locality of Burdwan district of West Bengal on October 2, 2014. The IED had gone off accidentally at the time of its fabrication by the members of the banned terrorist organization - Jamat-ul-Mujahideen of Bangladesh (JMB). The members of JMB had taken that house on rent for the nefarious activity of bomb-making. Two accused persons succumbed to their injuries caused in the bomb-blast and one accused survived with grievous injuries.