The National Investigation Agency (NIA) will probe the
sabotage angle in the recent train derailments in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur and
Andhra Pradesh’s Kuneru area. The agency has taken over the probe in these
cases following an order from the Home Ministry, official sources said on
Thursday.
An NIA team has already conducted an inspection of the site
in Vizianagaram near Kuneru where Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express went
off the track to ascertain if it was an “act of terror” as the railway
suspected sabotage. 39 people were killed in the accident that took place on
Saturday.
The role of Pakistan’s snooping agency Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) in the derailment of Indore-Patna train on November 20 last
year in Kanpur in which 150 people lost their lives is also being looked into.
Three persons arrested by Bihar Police in this connection
had claimed sabotage by the ISI.
However, the NIA has found no evidence or input to this
effect during its preliminary probe.
Moti Paswan, Uma Shankar and Mukesh Yadav, arrested from
East Champaran district of Bihar, had claimed they had received Rs 3 lakh to
plant IEDs at Ghorasahan railway station on October 1 last year.
The three had claimed they worked for the ISI and reportedly
confessed about its possible role in the derailment.
The NIA had registered a case in this regard and started its
probe. A team of officials had also gone to Bihar to question the accused.
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