Manobrata Jana, and the other arrested accused, identified as Balai Charan Maity, were found to have conspired to manufacture and explode crude bombs to spread terror, it said.Three persons were killed in the December 2022 explosion in the house of one Rajkumar Manna in village Naruabilla in East Medinipur district. “Manna himself was seriously in the blast, along with two others, Biswajit Gayen and Buddhadeb Manna. All three succumbed to their injures later.”The state police initially registered an FIR on December 3, 2022 against the three men killed in the explosion but the provisions of the Explosive Substances Act were not applied.Subsequently, the NIA said, a writ petition was filed before High Court at Calcutta with a prayer for invoking the relevant sections of the Act and transferring of the case to NIA. NIA took over the case on June 4, 2023, as per the High Court order dated March 21, 2023, and re-registered under various sections of law, including the Explosive Substances Act.During investigation, NIA uncovered the role of several other accused in the case, including the arrested accused, Manobrata Jana of village Naruabila, and Balai Charan Maity of Ninaruya Analberia.”The two men had actively participated in the conspiracy to make crude bombs and had extended support for the same,” said the NIA, adding “it had found the role of the two accused in its probe, which led to today’s searches and arrests.”The arrested accused will be produced before the Special NIA Court in Kolkata, as per law, added the agency.
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