Additional director-general Rajyavardhan Sharma at the news meet at the police headquarters in Patna on Thursday. Picture by Ashok Sinha

Patna, Sept. 8: Districts on India-Nepal and India-Bangladesh borders have been identified as vulnerable to subversive activities after yesterday’s Delhi blasts.

After reports of yesterday’s blasts in Delhi links surfaced from Bihar, the state has been on the tenterhooks. According to sources, a National Investigation Agency (NIA) team is presently camping in the state capital collecting details about the man who had provided logistics support to terrorists to execute the Delhi blasts in which 11 persons were killed and around 65 injured.

However, the additional director-general (ADG) Rajyavardhan Sharma denied knowledge of any NIA team coming down to Patna to gather information about the blasts. Sharma said: “I have no information whether any NIA team has come down to the (state) capital. There might be a possibility of other officials knowing about the NIA team visit to Patna.”

Sharma added: “There is no definite rule in the police administration that every officer should have all the information.”Sharma’s statement assumes importance because after the Mumbai blasts this year, there were reports about terrors links to Bihar districts bordering Nepal and Bangladesh.

After the Mumbai blasts, the Mumbai police in association with the Bihar police arrested Riyazul Khan, a suspected HuJi member from Kishanganj in July. Based on Khan’s interrogation, the police came to know that he had made frequent calls to a Mumbai resident on July 13, the day the serial blasts rocked the commercial capital of the country. The total duration of his calls was around two hours.

Khan had also made calls to Bangalore the same day. According to sources, Khan had returned to Kishanganj’s Maheshpur village on July 15 evening, 48 hours after the Mumbai blasts. He was away from July 10 to July 14, the villagers told the police after burn injuries on his palms and a diary aroused their suspicion.

Moreover, apart from Khan’s arrest, in January 2010, the Purnea police had arrested Gulam Rasool Khan, an Al-Qaeda terrorist carrying a Pakistani passport. The police, following his suspicious movement in the town, picked up Gulam. He had recently come to Purnea to cross over to Bangladesh through the India-Bangladesh border in Purnea.