Chandigarh:
A woman is among two individuals who have been arrested from Punjab in connection with the Sri Ganganagar railway track blast case in Rajasthan.
The accused, identified as 21-year-old Mahakdeep Kaur and 22-year-old Davinder Singh, were arrested following a joint operation by the Rajasthan Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), Sri Ganganagar Police and Punjab Police.
The police said that Kaur was in contact with two handlers based in Pakistan.
One of the handlers was known as ‘Chacha’, while the other was called ‘Shah’. They trapped her by engaging in romantic conversations and giving her money, a trend police said has become frequent with Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI. The police had earlier said that the ISI used a similar method to entrap a woman named Babita, a resident of Ganganagar.
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Kaur was living separately from her husband, who is currently incarcerated on charges related to drug trafficking. According to the police, ISI handlers target vulnerable women, often those living alone, by initiating romantic conversations and offering them money. Investigations have revealed that the woman received payment to carry out the blast on the railway track.
Meanwhile, the police recovered two weapons, 46 cartridges, and 30,000 rupees from the woman and have also taken three other individuals into custody.
These individuals are suspected of having assisted the accused by providing them with accommodation, a motorcycle, and transport to the crime scene.
Additional Director General (ADG) Rajasthan Dinesh MN, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ganganagar Nitin Chaudhary, ASP ATS Manish Sharma and Surendra Singh, and SP Gurdaspur Aditya coordinated the entire operation to catch the suspects.
The blast had occurred on the night of November 3, at approximately 9:45 PM, on a railway track near Ramsinghpur in Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan. It shattered two railway sleepers, damaged the track, and created a crater approximately two and a half feet deep.
An Anupgarh-Suratgarh passenger train had passed along the same track about 75 minutes before the blast.
(With inputs from Kuldeep and Harsha)
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