2 more held for Ujjain train blast
MP government reiterates its stand that the three suspects in the train blast incident have links with ISIS
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday visited the Ujjain train blast site at Shujalpur under Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh for onthe-spot inquiry into the incident.
The two-member NIA team led by additional superintendent of police (ASP) D.R. Singh inspected the coach of the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train that got damaged in the IED blast triggered by the suspected militants near Jabdi railway station
on March 7.
Police sources said the team had spent three hours in the damaged coach and later interacted with local police during course of their investigation.
Earlier on Thursday, the team had interrogated three accused — Atif Muzaffar, Danish and Syed Mir Hussein — who were currently in custody of Madhya Pradesh antiterrorist squad (ATS).
The probe team had also gone through the footage of CCTV installed in Bhopal railway station.
Meanwhile, MP home minister Bhupendra Singh stood by his government’s stand that the three suspects in the train blast incident have links with ISIS.
“We have enough evidence to establish their link with ISIS”, he told reporters while refusing to comment on the contradictory claims by the Uttar Pradesh police which said the three accused have only been influenced by ISIS ideology and there was no evidence to link them to the dreaded outfit.
In another development, MP police late on Thursday night arrested two other people in Sagar in the state in connection with the incident.
Police sources said 44 people in the state have been kept under surveillance after they were found to be browsing the sites of ISIS in social media.
“We have not found evidence of their direct connection with the terror outfit. But, they have been kept under vigilance for the last several months” a intelligence officer here said.