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‘ISI agent hired Nepal man to derail trains across India’

‘ISI agent hired Nepal man to derail trains across India’

Rajesh Ahuja, HT, 23 Jan 2017, EWDELHI: A Karachi-based Fake Indian Currency Note (FICN) smuggling kingpin, who is also a known agent of Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has emerged as a pivot to the conspiracy to derail trains in India by using local criminals, sources associated with the probe told HT.
A multi-agency probe into three incidents — recovery of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on Raxual - Sitamarhi railway track near Ghorasahan (October 1, 2016), derailment of the Indore-Patna Express near Kanpur last November that killed 148 passengers, and derailment of Sealdah-Ajmer Express in December 2016 that injured more than 40 passengers — is underway and it has thrown up some startling facts.
Saturday’s derailment of Hirakhand Express is also being checked to see whether it was an act of sabotage.
“Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), the country’s external intelligence agency, has informed the government that a Karachi-based FICN kingpin Shafi Shaikh was in regular touch with Nepalese national Shamsul Hoda who, in turn, hired criminals for subversive activities,” said a central counter terror official. Hoda is believed to be in Dubai now.
The official added it was Hoda who contracted a Nepalese criminal, Brij Kishore Giri, for subversive activities in India. Giri’s bank accounts have been found to be unusually flush with money to the tune of ₹30 lakh.
Giri further sub-contracted the job to local criminals in Bihar’s districts along the Nepalese border. Giri was arrested in Nepal in the first week of this month on the charges of murdering two Indians — Arun Ram and Deepak Ram — who had been hired by Giri for planting the IED in Ghorasahan. The two were murdered in December 2016. Giri had tried to escape but was shot in the leg.
“He is being treated in a hospital in Kathmandu and Indian sleuths are waiting to question him. But the Nepal police have told the Indian agencies that Giri’s phone call records show his regular interactions with Hoda. The money flow between Hoda and Giri is being looked into. Giri has also talked about toppling the Indore-Patna express,” said the official.
The Nepal police have also found videos of murders of Arun Ram and Deepak Ram that Giri sent to Hoda as proof of their killing. Sources in the Bihar police say, following the failure at Ghorasahan, Giri didn’t use Patel for his other hits. “For his next operation, Giri used Moti Paswan, who first told Bihar police that he had gone to Kanpur for erailment of the Indore-Patna Express.





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