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Lucknow’s NIA court awarded death sentence to 7 convicts and life imprisonment to 1 in the 2017 Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train blast case. This decision came at around 8 pm on Tuesday night. At that time all the eight terrorists were present in the court. A total of 9 terrorists were involved in the train blast. One of these has already had an encounter.
Those sentenced to death: 1. Mohammad Faisal, 2. Ghaus Mohammad Khan, 3. Mohammad Azhar, 4. Atif Muzaffar, 5. Mohammad Danish, 6. Syed Mir Hussain, 7. Asif Iqbal Rocky
life imprisonment: Mohd Atif Irani
It was killed in the encounter: Saifullah
On Friday, the court convicted the accused
These terrorists were arrested by the investigating agencies. Saifullah was killed in the encounter.
Used to incite the youth by showing Zakir Naik’s video
The NIA, in its report presented in the court, had accused 9 terrorists of waging war against the country, raising funds, explosives and weapons for terrorist activities and also gave evidence of the same. The investigating agency had told that these people used to incite the youth for Jihad by showing videos of Zakir Naik.
Charges were framed in this case on March 21, 2018. On Friday, February 24, NIA court judge Vivekananda Sharan Tripathi convicted the accused.
Saifullah was killed in the encounter
Police arrested the terrorists after the encounter. Saifullah was killed in an encounter at Kakori in Lucknow. While a large quantity of ammunition and weapons were recovered from the other accused. After this, while investigating the case, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed a charge sheet against the rest of the accused.
This picture is from March 7, 2017. Passengers had come out after leaving the train after the blast.
The blast happened on March 7, 2017
On 7 March 2017, Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train (59320) left Bhopal station at 6:25 am as per schedule. The time must have been 9:38 in the morning. The blast took place in the train near Jabri railway station near Kalapipal in Shajapur district. Nine people were seriously injured in this. There was chaos in the train. Some people jumped from the train. He got hurt because of that. Hearing the blast, some people stopped the train by pulling the chain.
On 14 March 2017, the Central Government handed over the investigation of the case to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). It was revealed in the investigation that the terrorists belonging to the terrorist organization ISIS had planted the bomb. The investigating agencies had arrested all the nine accused from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
This is how the links of terror were connected from MP to UP in 5 and a half hours
- On March 7, 2017, the intelligence system was activated as soon as there was a blast in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train. Telangana Police gave important inputs to MP and UP Police.
- MP police arrested 3 youths from a moving bus in Pipariya at around 1.30 pm. He told the names of his friends in Lucknow, Kanpur and Etawah of UP.
- UP ATS started action. Three people were arrested from Kanpur and Etawah.
- Videos and literature related to ISIS were found from the laptops of arrested terrorists from Kanpur.
UP ATS had recovered these items from terrorist Saifullah in the encounter.
Charges framed under these sections
The Court has invoked Section 16(b) of the Explosive Substances Act, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967, Section 4 of the Public Property Prevention Act 1984, Section 150 and 151 of the Railway Act 1989 and Section 324 of the Indian Penal Code against these terrorists. Charges were framed under 326.
Dainik Bhaskar spoke to the passengers who were on board the train at the time of the incident. Read, the story of the blast, in the words of the eyewitnesses…
On 7 March 2017, at 9:38 am, a bomb blast took place in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger train (59320) near Jabri railway station in Madhya Pradesh.
Woman said – 6 year old son was saved from death
Jiya Kushwaha was traveling in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger on the day of the bomb blast. He told that it took me six months to recover.
Jiya Kushwaha, a resident of Sehore, also boarded the train that day. Jiya says, ‘We were going to Bolai Baba’s place. There was a lot of crowd in the train. There was not even a place to sit in the train. We barely found a place to sit on the top seat. I just stood down.
Suddenly something like a tiffin bomb exploded. Where I was standing, the blast happened right above me. Meanwhile, there was chaos. My finger was cut and hanged. The hair was also blown away. The eardrums burst. There were shrapnel all over the body. Nothing was visible. There was smoke in the train.
It took me about 3 months to recover. I was 26 years old at the time of the accident. My 6 year old son was saved from dying. During that time I was pregnant. I also had a miscarriage. Old grandfather’s leg was damaged. The train was torn from above by the explosion. There was also the fear that the train might get derailed.
No one was able to understand anything. The horror is still remembered today, my finger is disfigured forever, there were 6 pieces from inside the bone. Received 25 thousand rupees as assistance from the government. Terrorists should be punished severely.
4 people jumped from the train and ran away… then the explosions started.
Jagdish Patwa, a resident of Ujjain, was going to his hometown on the day of the incident. Around 20 family members were traveling with him in the train.
Jagdish Patwa, who lives in Ujjain, was also aboard the train. He says, ‘On the day of the incident, he was sitting in the Bhopal-Ujjain passenger with about 20 family members from Sehore. I was in the 5th coach from the back of the train. That day the train left from Jabdi station at 9.37 am. As soon as the station passed, four youths in the last coach started running by jumping from the moving train.
Before we could understand anything, smoke started coming out of the coach. The train stopped after going about 250 feet. Passengers jumped from the train and started running in the fields, then there was a sound of explosion in the coach. When I saw outside, an elderly passenger covered in blood was suffering. A little distance away, a baby girl was suffering from blood-soaked pain. There was a hole in his chest.
There was hue and cry at the spot. Our family was in panic. We could not sleep until the accused were caught. Even today we shudder remembering that scene. Whenever we sit in a train, the scene of the blast starts playing in our mind and heart. It was a sight never to be forgotten. Luckily everyone survived.
There was an explosion and many people were covered in blood.
Monty, a resident of Ujjain, told that there was a loud sound and smoke started coming out.
Monty, a resident of Ujjain, also boarded the same train. He told that there was a loud noise and smoke started coming out. After this there was chaos in the train. Many people were bleeding. The bogie was in disarray. After this everyone was shifted to Bhagat ki Kothi train and sent.