They are linked with Lashkar-e-Taiba and one of them visited Pakistan in 2012, claims premier investigating agency
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two brothers on Wednesday in Hyderabad for a June 17 blast at Darbhanga Railway Station in Bihar. Imran Malik alias Imran Khan and Mohd. Nasir Khan alias Nasir Malik are allegedly linked with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Both of them originally hail from Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh but residing in Hyderabad.
Country’s premier investigating agency claims that Nasir Khan had visited Pakistan in 2012 and received training from handlers of LeT in fabrication of IED from locally available chemicals.
No one was injured in the explosion on platform No. 1 of Darbhanga Railway Station. The parcel was booked at Secunderabad and had arrived by Secunderabad-Darbhanga Express.
The case was originally registered at Railway police station Darbhanga district. The NIA re-registered the case on June 24 and took up the investigation.
The siblings fabricated an incendiary IED and packed it in a parcel of cloth and booked the same in the long-distance train from Secunderabad to Darbhanga. This was aimed at causing explosion and fire in a running passenger train resulting in huge loss of lives and property, said NIA.
NIA sleuths took the accused to their rented house in Mallepally in Hyderabad late Wednesday and reportedly seized incriminating material from their premises.
The two brothers were running a readymade garment shop. While Nasir was said to be operating from Hyderabad for the last few years, his brother joined him last year.
The parcel was booked from Secunderabad railway station in the name of Md Sufiyaan on June 15. The investigations revealed that the accused used a forged PAN card for booking the parcel.
The Counter Intelligence (CI) Cell of Telangana police’s Intelligence Wing, Railway Police and officials of NIA questioned the suspects and finally zeroed in on the two brothers.
— With input from IANS
