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Shamsul Hoda, the ISI agent behind Kanpur train accident, arrested in Nepal

by IBNS 06 Feb 2017, 10:14 pm

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New Delhi, Feb 7 (IBNS) : Shamsul Hoda, a Pakistani agent who is believed to be the mastermind behind a series of train accidents in India, has been arrested in Nepal, media reports said.

 Hoda is said to be an agent of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He was deported from Dubai on Saturday.

 
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) is investigating into all the recent train derailments that took place across India, believed to have been caused by the ISI.
 
The most recent incident for which he is being investigated is the Kanpur  train accident in November in which 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express rolled off the tracks, killing 150 people.
 
It was only in January that the the role of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was suspected following an unexpected turn of event.
 
The  investigation into the incident took a new turn after three men, arrested  by Bihar police in connection with some other case, reportedly admitted that  they were working for the ISI to target Indian railways and interrogation revealed the name of Hoda as the mastermind.
 
It was said that on  Hoda's order, one Brajkishore Giri and a few other men allegedly planted IEDs on the track which the Indore Patna Express was to take, and also used gas cutters to damage it.

His role was allegedly corroborated by the three arrested persons- Moti Paswan, Uma Shankar Patel and Mukesh Yadav. 

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