SILIGURI, April 15: Five youths, three of whom are women, have been arrested in connection with the 3 April Champasari blasts in Siliguri and the subsequent seizure of explosives from different locations in the town.
The Pradhannagar police, investigating the blasts nabbed the five suspected militants last night. They were produced before a Siliguri court this afternoon.
The arrested men have been identified as Balkrishna Rai and Suresh Biswakarma ~ both residents of Sikkim, while the women were identified as Fulmaya Gurung, Krishna Gurung and Sandhya Tamang. Fulmaya Gurung and Krishna Gurung are Bhutanese refugees from the Beldangi-1 camp in Jhapa, Nepal and Sandhya Tamang hails from Jorbunglow in Darjeeling.
“We could reach them by tracking the call records of Dipen Rai’s ~ another ultra arrested on the day of the Champasari blasts ~ cell phone. They were arrested separately from Pradhannagar, Jorbunglow and Sikkim,” the Siliguri additional superintendent of police, Mr Rajesh Yadav said.
Adding further, the ASP said that the three arrested girls were residing in rented houses at Gurung Busty and Sevoke Road in Siliguri. “They arrived in Siliguri three-four months back and were living in the town as trainee nurses. The two men were keeping in touch with them and were providing assistance to them from Sikkim,” he said.
The police have recovered several leaflets, documents and diaries from their possessions reportedly, containing details of the planned terror plots.
Three persons, including a woman, were killed in the accidental blasts at a household in Champasari, Siliguri on 3 April when the suspected ultras were working on the timed explosive devices.
Following the blasts, the Pradhannagar police recovered 2.5 kg explosive from a Mallaguri household on 8 April and ten live bombs with six timers from a Gurung Busty household on 12 April.
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