A four-member team of officials of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) headed by its director general Sharad Kumar arrived here yesterday for talks and to share intelligence with security officials in Bangladesh in the aftermath of the Burdwan blast.
Officials familiar with the meeting, on condition of anonymity, said the NIA team had given 10 to 15 mobile phone numbers and a few names and wanted to know whether the Bangladeshi agencies knew about them.
Bangladesh earlier said it would share its intelligence on banned militant Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which is allegedly responsible for the October 2 blast in Burdwan town in West Bengal.
The visit comes after NIA made major headway in the case by arresting JMB's chief commander for Burdwan module, Sajid, a Bangladeshi national, Amjad Sheikh and Zia-ul-Haque who allegedly procured explosives and motivated youth for terror groups. Bangladesh's elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has also captured Sajid's brother Mohammad Monayem.
India will also share with Bangladesh government details of its probe for preventive steps and necessary action needed to be taken by Dhaka to counter the threat posed by JMB.
Two suspected militants had died in the explosion that rocked the Burdwan house and their two wives, also believed to have been trained by the JMB, were caught.