CHENNAI: It’s been 2 years since the twin bomb blast in the Chennai Central Railway station which claimed the life of a TCS employee. Now, the Tamil Nadu police claims that it has identified three suspects - all said to be SIMI activists.
On Monday, the CBCID made its first official disclosure on the status of the probe in the case before the Madras High Court, which was hearing a petition seeking transfer of the case to National Investigation Agency. The affidavit by CBCID said that it has already identified three accused in the case and one of them is already dead.
The blasts that took place on May 1, 2014, which was first such bomb blast ever to take place in the Southern coastal city, remained a mystery for all along as the CBCID, which was investigating the case, never officially announced any development in the investigations. The two bombs went off in adjacent coaches of the Bangalore–Guwahati tri-weekly express, within minutes after it arrived in the Central Railway station at around 7.15 am. Swathi, 22, a TCS employee travelling in the train, was killed in a impact and 14 others were injured.
Aijajudeen, one of the three accused was killed in an encounter by Telangana police in April 2015. The rest of the two accused, Zakir Hussain and Mehaboob, are arrested in February 2, 2016 in Rourkela, Odisha and currently in Madhya Pradesh prison and facing trial there in a murder case.
However, except the confessions that these two accused, the affidavit submitted by the CBCID did not mention how the investigators concluded that these three are the accused in the Central Bomb Blast case. The affidavit was filed by B Vijayakumari, Superintendent of Police, in charge of the special investigation division of the CBCID.
The affidavit said Prisoner Transit Warrant was obtained from the Judicial Magistrate Court, Saidapet to remand both the surviving accused in the Chennai blast case too.
The CBCID also submited the Rs 1 lakh compensation to the victim Swathi's family has been granted by the Tamil Nadu government and the cheque was sent to the Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary in May 22, 2014.
Satisfied by CBCID's reply, the bench of Chief Justice SK Kaul and Justice R Mahadevan, dismissed the petition by advocate M Durai Selvan, which had sought investigations by National Investigation Agency in to the case.