Imphal, October 30 2010: A team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) led by an additional SP arrived here in Imphal today to investigate into various insurgency related activities including an attempt to blow up a bomb fitted on a car inside the Raj Bhavan.

The NIA is investigating into an abortive attempt to blow up a car bomb inside the Raj Bhavan two years back, on September 18, 2008, and two bomb attacks on Chief Minister's bungalow in the previous year.

The NIA was set up by the Centre to investigate into terrorists related activities.

Taking serious note of the abortive car bomb attack inside the well-guarded Raj Bhavan complex, the Union Home Ministry entrusted NIA to investigate into the incident.

State government had also acceded to the MHA's proposal.

A car fitted with 25 kgs of explosive material, three hand grenades and two mobile phone handsets was found parked inside the Raj Bhavan complex.

In the follow up action to the abortive attempt, police arrested four persons and were detained under NSA.

Officials of the agency had visited Imphal several times to investigate into the failed bomb attack since the task was handed over to them.

The NIA team arrived today is led by an additional SP, Aseem Shrivastava.

They arrived here by a Kingfisher flight from New Delhi.

They will be camping here for some days and they will be conducting their investigation into blast incidents and threats posed by insurgents at sensitive areas of the state and at government officials, a highly place official source said.

The source, however, refused to divulge details of the cases they are to investigate.

Whether they would assess state's situation in the wake of the reported arrest of UNLF chairman in Bangladesh and review the activities of the UNLF and its frontal organisations could not be culled out from the sources.

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