Burdwan: The Burdwan Police has identified two more suspected terrorist hideouts in Burdwan within a kilometer radius from the site of the blast that took place on Thursday.
The first hideout, a rented house in the Baburbag area in the outskirts of Burdwan town, was inhabited by four people - two men and two women. All four inhabitants are yet unidentified. The house had been rented a couple of months ago.
The four have gone missing since the day the blast took place at the Khagragarh house. Evidences of burnt documents have been found outside the Baburbag house.
The second suspected hideout is at the Lashkardighi area of Burdwan town. The police have sealed both the suspected houses.
Amidst demand for having an NIA probe into the October 2 blast at a house in Burdwan in West Bengal, government is treading cautiously and weighing political ramifications of the move before making a suo moto decision to hand over the case to a central probe agency.
Senior officials of the Home Ministry said a report of intelligence agencies and from the state government had been received and a decision whether to hand over the case to NIA would be be taken only by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who is at present campaigning in Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections.
Two suspected militants Shakil Ahmed and Sovan Mandal were killed and another man Hasan Saheb was injured in the explosion on October 2. Grenades, chemicals used in making explosives, a book on how to trigger explosion, jihadi literature, a video on jihadi training and a map of important locations in Burdwan district were seized by the CID team from the house.
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