HYDERABAD: Sleuths of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested two persons from Uttar Pradesh in the Darbhanga railway station blast case on Friday.
Md Salim Ahmed alias Haji Salim and Kafil alias Kafeel from Kairana in Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh were arrested by the NIA on Friday. The duo have been taken into custody by the Uttar Pradesh ATS sleuths after an IED placed in parcel containing garments, exploded on platform number 1 of Darbhanga railway station on June 17.
NIA officials said Haji and Kafil are associates of brothers, Md Nasir Khan and Imran Malik arrested from Hyderabad on June 30. All the four accused are from Kairana.
“The arrested accused met at the residence of Haji Salim in February 2021 and finalized the plan of planting an IED in a moving train. Haji Salim is a close associate of Pakistan-based LeT operative Iqbal Kana and he was acting as a key intermediary between Iqbal Kana and other accused. Haji was involved in channeling funds sent by Iqbal to execute the terror act,” said an NIA official. The accused will be produced before Special NIA Court in Patna after obtaining transit remand.
