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Hyderabad: The sleuths of the counterintelligence cell (CIC) of the Telangana state intelligence department have achieved a breakthrough by detaining two suspects in the city in connection with the Darbhanga railway station parcel blast.
In a swift operation, the intelligence wing with the inputs from Bihar ATS and Government Railway Police (GRP) have picked up three persons hailing from North India.
The suspects have been moved to an undisclosed location for the interrogation purpose.
Though a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) have reached Darbhanga in connection with the June 17 blast at the railway station and inspected the crime scene believing it to be a terror angle, while another NIA team from New Delhi has joined the interrogation of the suspects in Hyderabad.
According to highly placed sources, the suspicious parcel was booked from Secunderabad in the name of one Mohammed Sufiyan on June 15 from Southcentral railway’s outward parcel service for Secunderabad express.
The suspects who were picked up in Hyderabad are into the cloth business and belong to Uttar Pradesh Kairana in the Shamli district. It is believed that the agencies are exploring the angle of proscribed terror out Indian Mujahideen (IM) in this case.
On June 17, the consignment, carrying a bundle of ready-made clothes, caught fire following an explosion upon arrival at Darbhanga railway station at platform No. 1. During this incident, no one was injured but the Government Railway Police (GRP) at Muzaffarpur have registered a case and started an investigation.
The preliminary investigation revealed that during the inspection by the agencies and forensic experts, they have seized a glass bottle having 50 ml of unidentified liquid that was stuffed in the parcel packet.
Since the parcel did not contain the name and details of the sender while the addressee was named as Mohammed Sufiyan. The intelligence sleuths have also collected the copy of ID proof from the Secunderabad station booking counter and the mobile phone number of the sender who is the prime suspect in the case.
