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Derailments: NIA probes role of terror groups

In a Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train case, NIA has filed a charge sheet against four accused for their involvement in the conspiracy to plant a bomb.

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A passenger is rescued from one of the coaches of the Puri-Haridwar Utkal Express train after it derailed in Khatauli near Muzaffarnagar on Saturday
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The National Investigating Team (NIA) suspects that it is the self radicalised groups showing allegiance with Islamic State (IS) and banned terror organisations behind the recent train derailment incidents. They agency is probing the role of such groups in the recent derailment incidents.

The anti-terror unit is probing Kanpur train accident when 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express derailed on 20 November, 2016, killing more than 140 people, recovery of a pressure cooker bomb near the rail track at Ghorasan in Bihar on 1 October, 2016 and a bomb blast that took place in a Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train near Jabari station in Madhya Pradesh's Shajapur district on March 7, 2017 injuring at least ten people.

In a Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train case, NIA has filed a charge sheet against four accused for their involvement in the conspiracy to plant a bomb. The four members chargesheeted are self-radicalised Kanpur ISIS module headed by Atif Muzzafar.

The accused are Atif Muzaffar, Mohammad Danish, Syed Mir Hussain and Ghaus Mohd Khan. All of them took an oath of allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and planned to carry out attacks in India. The agency stated that action against Saifullah, son of Sartaj Khan of Kanpur Nagar in UP, is abated as he was killed in Lucknow in an encounter on March 9 this year.

They attended Ahl-e-Hadith programme at various places and got radicalised after watching the online publications of ISIS, including but not limited to Dabiq magazine and Inspire magazine.

In pressure cooker bomb found near the rail track at Ghorasan in Bihar, the agency has filed a chargesheet stating that conspiracy was hatched by ISI's Pakistani-Nepali bosses to plant IEDs on railway tracks and bridges to blow up passenger trains in order to disrupt connectivity lines. The anti-terror agency said ISI's Pakistani and Nepalese bosses weren't happy with Motihari-based bombers -Uma Shankar Patel, Gajendra Sharma, Rakesh Kumar Yadav, Ranjay Sah, Mukesh Yadav, Motilal Paswan and Arun Ram (now dead) - contracted to carry out the attack at Ghorasahan on September 30, 2016. Three audio files recovered from Patel's phone contained conversations between him and Giri in which they had arguments over money and discussions over the train accident in Kanpur.

The Nepalese masterminds are Shamsul Hoda and Brij Kishore Giri were pressurising Patel to carry out some attacks like the Kanpur train derailment.

The Kanpur train derailment is yet to be solved. Paswan had earlier confessed that they had carried out the Kanpur derailment as well but the NIA probe is yet to establish this group's link with it. The agency is looking into the self radicalised groups allegiance to Islamic State.

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