Women Madrasa :Breeding ground of Militancy

The women nabbed at the Burdwan blast site on 2nd October have admitted to having received training in a Khariji madrassa in Mangalkot. Women schooled in khariji madrassas have played a key role in the entire plot. Two Bangladeshi bomb makers — Shamim Shakil Ahmed and Sovan Mondal — died in the explosion.

Ahmed’s widow Gulshana (Rumi) Bibi and Sovan's widow Amina Bibi, residents of the bomb-assembling unit, were arrested soon after the blast. the state CID (criminal investigating department) has recovered a SIM card registered in the name of a third woman, Rajira Bibi. The SIM was used to make several calls to terrorist Shakil Ahmed (Shakil was blown to pieces in the blast).

police arrested Abdul Hakim, who is recovering in Burdwan Medical College. He received arms training at Lalgola's Mokumnagar Madrassa.Rumi Bibi (Ahmed’s widow)stated that The terror group Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB, a terror outfit linked to the banned Jamaat-e-Islami) was planning to make rocket launchers with lathe machines. Rumi Bibi had told security agencies that they sent four consignments of bombs in the last three months through Kausar and another man called Rasiq. security teams are using call data records of the dead terrorists and the injured to track their accomplices in India. Police said they found documents linked to al Qaeda and Chechen rebels, as many as 55 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), 40 explosives (25 were grenades), large amount of chemicals used in making bomb(like acetone, ammonium nitrate, magnesium etc.), several detonators, a number of wristwatch dials, mobile devices and more. They clearly suggest that the Trinamool Congress leader’s house and the regional party office was being used as a terrorist safehouse and a cottage bomb manufacturing unit.

NIA official said "By the time our officers reached the spot there was a teething hurry on part of the local police to destroy the evidence. The police wanted it to seem like a cylinder blast and hence all the explosives and similar other evidence was taken away to the banks of Damodar and detonated.
(The bomb disposal ‎unit was very present and could have contained any explosion if that is what the local police was worried about, the NIA says.)

On questioning some of the suspects the NIA also learnt that the accused at the spot were being aided in destroying the evidence. On interrogation of the two women they learnt that communication details between the local leaders and the ploy to target the Bangladesh government is what was being protected. The police wanted it to seem like a cylinder blast and hence all the explosives were taken away and detonated.

Standard operating procedure mandates that evidence is preserved. Intelligence bureau officers and the NIA term this an attempt on part of the local police and government to cover up the operation. The police tried to :
i) make it seem as a cylinder blast
ii) burn down all documents linking local leaders to the Jamaat-e-Islami which was planning on using West Bengal as breeding ground to target the Awami League.
iii) Coaching the accused woman to reveal nothing and feign ignorance.
iv) Non-Cooperation ‎with central agencies like NIA, IB and R&AW.
v) reject an NIA probe despite national and international ramifications, as Mamta Banerjee insists on keeping them away.
vi) Ignore the IB alert after Jamaat link has been proven in case of multi billion rupees Saradha Scam.

Two more houses used by the Burdwan blast suspect have been found at a walking distance from the Khagragarh house where the explosion took place. There was a huge hue nd cry against the local SP Mr. S M H Mirza . Demand for his resignation was made by opposition parties like BJP as well as some local groups. They alleged he was abetting the crimes for a long time now and the government is doing nothing despite having full knowledge of these activities. What makes the situation more embarrassing is the fact that the site of bomb making was withing a kilometer of the CID office.

Recently, The head of the little-known Ansar al-Tawhid fi’Bilad al-Hind urged Muslims to kill foreigners and other infidels in India. Fugitive jihadist Sultan Abdul Kadir Armar, a former resident of southern India who attended a Madrassa before going to Pakistan, said in a statement :  "Kill the idol worshippers wherever you find them ... shoot them if you can, stab them, throw stones at their heads, poison them, run them over, burn their fields - and if you are unable ... spit in their faces," referring to Hindus.

flags of the insurgent group have appeared at rallies in Indian Kashmir. Also the IB has warned the neighboring states against the terrorists taking a temporary refuge following the exposure they face due to the Burdwan blast. Members who have been operating under the banner of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, Bangladesh JuM(B) will make attempts to flee West Bengal. The warning is specific to the states of Bihar, Assam and Jharkhand.