Law Kumar Mishra
Patna, June 30
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday night arrested two persons from Namapally in Hyderabad in connection with the explosions in the parcel office at platform number 1 of Darbhanga railway station, 200 kms north from here on June 17.
The two arrested persons, identified as -Imran Malik and Mohammad Nasir Khan, are originally from Shamli in Uttar Pradesh are being brought to Patna to be produced before the special NIA court on Thursday. NIA has sought transit remand from NIA special court at Hyderabad.
According to official sources in the NIA, the said parcel was booked at Secunderabad station on June 15 in 07007 Secunderabad-Darbhanga station special train. It reached Darbhanga on June 17 morning and when a parcel containing garments was being taken to the parcel room, it exploded on the platform. It contained liquid explosives.
GRP of Darbhanga had earlier registered a case and the police of three states-Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were investigating it. During investigations, it was found there were international links as the mobile number on the parcel was found active in Nepal. Both consignee and consignor were the same-Mohammad Sufiyan.
NIA took over the investigation of the case on June 24 and its team visited Darbhanga, Shamli and Secunderabad.
Preliminary investigations and examination of the accused persons has revealed a trans-national conspiracy hatched by top operatives of proscribed terrorist organisation-Lashkar-E-Taiba (LeT) to execute terror acts across India and cause large-scale damage to life and property.
The NIA official said, “Acting under the directions of Pakistan based handlers of LeT, the arrested persons fabricated an incendiary IED and packed it in a parcel of cloth and booked the same on the long-distance train from Secunderabad to Darbhanga. This was aimed at causing an explosion and fire in the running train resulting in huge loss of lives and property.”
According to the NIA official, “The arrested persons had visited Pakistan in 2012 and received training from handlers of LET in fabrication of IED from locally available chemicals. They were in touch with the Pakistan based handlers of LeT over encrypted communication platforms.”
