New Delhi: India’s National Investigation Agency has filed a charge-sheet against five accused in the Samjhauta Express blasts case at a special court in Panchkula on Monday.
They accused were Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Swami Asimanand, Sunil Joshi (now dead), Lokesh Sharma, Sandeep Dange alias Parmanand and Ramchandra Kalasangra alias Ramji alias Vishnu Patel.
“Investigation is still on to arrest the absconding accused who are still evading arrest and determine who were the other accused persons involved in this dastardly crime”, said the agency.
The case pertains to the criminal conspiracy which resulted in bomb blasts in the train near Panipat on February 18, 2007, leaving at least 68 people dead and wounded 12 passengers including women and children.
In this terror strike, not only Indian civilians and government officials were killed and injured, but a large number of Pakistani nationals who were passengers also lost their lives.
The Samjhauta Express is a bi-weekly train that runs on Wednesday and Sunday – between Delhi and Attari in India and Lahore in Pakistan.
The NIA conducted investigation in various parts of the country including New Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Utar Perdesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and M.P. to unravel the conspiracy hatched by the criminals to perpetrate this acts.
The investigation conducted by the agency over a period of almost one year established that, the entire conspiracy was hatched between 2005 and 2007 by the accused Swami Asimanand, Sunil Joshi (now dead) and his associates Ramji, Sandeep Dange, Lokesh Sharma and others at different places in Gujarat, M.P. and other places.
Samjhauta train was particularly chosen, as most of the passengers who travel in it are Pakistani citizens. Asimanand not only provided financial and logistical support to the terror group which executed this dastardly act but also played a vital role in instigating and motivating his associates to undertake this terrorist act.
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