Hyderabad: AP Crime Investigation Department has taken over the case of the Vizianagaram mishap and is probing the alleged sabotage angle by Maoists as suspected by the railways. Officials will also investigate if this was the handiwork of terrorists in the wake of the ISI plot to target the Indian Railways. National Investigation Agency teams have also rushed to the site.
Recently, railway police of all states and the Railway Protection Force had received an alert stating that terror suspects caught in East Champaran had said Pakistan’s ISI was involved in the Indore-Patna Express crash.
NIA reaches rail mishap site, to probe hand of ISI
A top Intelligence Bureau official told this newspaper, “IB teams are at the spot collecting inputs. NIA teams also reached the spot at night. So far we haven’t got inputs indicating sabotage. The mishap occurred at the track diversion point and there could be a technical defect at the point where the train shifts from one track to another. However, we have to pursue multiple angles.”
AP Additional Director General of Police K.R.M. Kishore Kumar told Deccan Chronicle that the AP DGP N. Sambasiva Rao has issued orders to hand over the case to the Crime Investigation Department. “We have initially booked a case under 174 CrPC (investigation into unnatural death) with the Government Railway Police Station. Railways technical experts will have to tell us if it is sabotage.” Waltair Senior Divisional Security officer A Ibrahim Sheriff confirmed that there was an alert from central agencies on the railways.
