The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a chargesheet against five alleged operatives of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in the Darbhanga railway station blast case.
A statement issued by the Home Ministry on Thursday mentions five alleged LeT operatives named Mohd Nasir Khan alias Nasir Malik, Imran Malik, Saleem Ahmed alias Haji Saleem alias Haji, Kafil Ahmad alias Kafil and Iqbal Mohammed alias Md Iqbal alias Hafeez Iqbal alias Iqbal Kana alias Kana, all of Shamli district in Uttar Pradesh. Md Iqbal is currently a resident of Lahore, Pakistan, the statement mentioned.
The case relates to an explosion at Bihar's Darbhanga railway station on June 17, in which no one was injured. A parcel, booked in Secunderabad, was transported on board the Secunderabad-Darbhanga Express and exploded on a platform of the Darbhanga railway station.
The NIA took up the investigation a week later and found out that the alleged LeT operatives had planned to set ablaze a moving long-distance train by placing incendiary improvised explosive devices (IEDs)/parcel bomb in the train to cause loss of lives and damage to property.
The statement said: “In order to execute the task, on directions of Pakistan-based LeT operative Hafeez Iqbal @ Iqbal Kana, accused Mohd Nasir Khan and Imran Malik fabricated an IED using locally procured chemicals and placed the same in a parcel of clothes.”
The parcel, the statement said “was booked in Secunderabad-Darbhanga Express which departs in the night…
