Train horror suspect off cops’ radar

IDDU MIAN, 42, THE ACCUSED, PUSHED 4 OF HIS 5 MINOR DAUGHTERS FROM THE TRAIN

LUCKNOW: Iddu Mian, 42, accused of pushing his four daughters from a moving train in Sitapur on October 23, has managed to stay off the radar of the UP government Railway Police (GRP) team for the last 17 days.

The team has also been unable to get any fresh inputs on his location, 10 days since he was last tracked to Jammu.

“His mobile location was last tracked in Jammu on October 30. Since then, the team has no clue of his movement. We are not sure if he is in Jammu or has moved to some other place,” said Ashish Kumar Verma, station officer of GRP (Lakhmipur Kheri), who is investigating the case.

Verma said the mobile number through which the police team was tracking his location is now switched off. “He has not used any new number from his original phone set, perhaps because he got the inkling that his phone is under surveillance,” said the cop.

“Maybe he has purchased a new SIM card and phone set. He cannot be tracked unless he uses the new number to contact someone. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” he added.

Even before switching off his old number, Iddu Mian had managed to dodge the police team multiple times by changing his location. Moreover, nobody in the police team can identify him properly as only his passport size photograph, which is very old and faded, is available.

Iddu Mian, who worked as a labourer in Jammu for several years, reportedly pushed off four of his five minor daughters from the Kamakhya-katra Express while travelling along with them and his wife, Afreena Khatoon, from Bihar to Jammu. While three girls were found injured along the railway track, the fourth succumbed to her injuries.