According to the NIA, the intention of the accused persons was to carry out the blast during the night
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday filed a chargesheet against five people alleging that a bomb was detonated by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists at Bihar’s Darbhanga railway station on June 17.
Those arrested include Mohammad Nasir Khan and his brother Imran Malik, who are residents of Kairana in Shamli, Uttar Pradesh and were living in Hyderabad; Salim Ahmed and Kafil Ahmed also from Kairana; and Iqbal Kana, who belongs to Shamli and is working from Lahore.
The NIA investigation has revealed that the alleged LeT operatives had planned to set a long-distance train on fire by implanting an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), which would kill a large number of passengers and cause damage to public property.
It is alleged that at the behest of Iqbal Kana, Nasir Khan and his brother configured the IED using locally procured chemicals and placed it in a parcel of cloth. On June 15, he booked the parcel using a fake PAN card at the Secunderabad Railway office. Railwaymen kept it in the Secunderabad-Darbhanga Express leaving the station at night.
According to the NIA, the intention of the accused persons was to carry out the blast during the night. The fire caused by the explosion in the moving train would have engulfed the sleeping passengers, causing maximum casualties. However, the bomb went off after unloading the parcel at Darbhanga railway station. No one got injured.
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The NIA alleged that on the instructions of Iqbal Kana, Nasir Khan traveled to Pakistan and took training in handling arms and ammunition and configuring the IED. He also used to get funds from Pakistan on many occasions to carry out the conspiracy. “After the incident, Pakistan-based masters tried to help the accused persons flee abroad via Nepal. However, he was arrested,” said an official.
As alleged, Salim Ahmed also knew Iqbal Kana, who was initially into smuggling counterfeit Indian currency, as both belonged to the same village. The accused had gone to Pakistan several times during 1990-2005 to import clothes and was earlier implicated by Iqbal Kana for smuggling counterfeit currency notes.
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