NIA arrests Burdwan blast key suspect Shahnoor

Key suspect in Burdwan blast case Shahnoor Alam, alleged to be the financial brain of outlawed outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), was arrested on Friday night by the NIA with the help of central security agencies from Nalbari district of Assam. NIA, whose probe into the October 2 bomb explosion in Burdwan town of India’s West Bengal state received a boost after the arrest of another accused Sajid, had been tailing Alam for quite sometime after his name surfaced in the call records and interrogation of the arrested accused person. India’s National Investigating Agency had last month arrested his wife but Alam had been on the run since the blast. NIA, along with Assam police and central security agencies, were looking for him in the areas where he could be hiding. They arrested him on Friday evening from Nalbari district, according to UNB.