Four separate activities targeting Indian Railway in Uttar Pradesh on Saturdaypointed towards a Rssleeping module’ gearing up to avenge the action taken against terror forces, recently being capital and life imprisonment to those involved in serial railway blast in Mumbai more than two decades back.
What further buttress apprehension of some Rsgroup’ behind the new move in the State is that intelligence agencies had already alerted the cops of such action. Senior police and railway officials also not denied the hands of terror forces behind the incident and said that they were making investigation on all aspects and had even pressed the services of Anti-Terrorists Squad (ATS) and Special Task Force (STF) to get some breakthrough behind the Rsmodule’ involved in the incident.
The biggest terror activity has been averted at Farukkabad railway station, when a passenger located a timer bomb planted at Platform No-1 on Saturday morning. The cops of the Government Railway Police(GRP) got the information in time and rushed to the spot to locate a bomb kept near the wall of parcel house at platform number 1. As the clock was active, so all preventive measures has been taken besides calling a nine member team of the Kanpur PAC’s anti-bomb squad to diffuse the timer and avert tragedy. later after the bomb was defused, the cops found that it had 10 sticks of explosives weighing around 330 grams, two PVC pipes, One clock, two 9 volt batteries and three radio transformers. The cops said that they were two bombs which were tied together to make a larger impact.
The intensity of the bomb would have affected an area of over 100 meters, the experts said.
When the cops were defusing the above bomb, another information came that a similar bomb was planted in lucknow bound Shatabadi express. The train has just left the Aligarh railway station when the information came. Security forces immediately alerted the GRP and the train was halted at Tundla railway station in Ferojabad. later after search, the cops found an unclaimed bag but no bomb was found. While the train proceeded further to lucknow, senior officials had started probe into the matter particularly to connect that the two recoveries, in Farukabad and Tundla were activity of same Rsmodule’ or not. Earlier in the day, fire broke out in general coach of Gorakhpur bound lokmanya Tilak Express coming from Mumbai. The fire was noticed between Amausi and Manak Nagar railway station here on early Saturday morning. No serious injury was reported and the fire was said to be doused within a hour.
Earlier on Friday, a major tragedy has been averted due to luck of thousand of passengers traveling by Prayag-Bareilly passenger train in the wee hours. The train passed through the broken track in Mohanlalganj area, just before the local railway station, after a big jerk and it automatically stopped at the station. When the engine driver checked it, he found the diesel tank of the engine has been broken following which they tank got empty and the train stopped.
He informed the station master immediately after which the track was checked and it was found that someone had cut a big portion of a track but luckily the train passed through it and not derailed otherwise it would cause great human loss. The portion which was cut by the miscreants had hit the fuel tank and damaged it, the probe pointed. According to district police chief of lucknow, Rajesh Pandey, who rushed soon after learning of the incident, he along with officials of ATS and STF visited to the scene and possibility of involvement of some terror group behind it could not be ruled out. He said that a case has been registered in this regard and further investigations are on.