Shafi Sheikh, the ISI man who gave the train derailment order

On a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the Kanpur train accident was a conspiracy hatched from across the border, the National Investigation Agency learnt that the job to carry out train derailments in India was tasked by Pakistan based Shafi Sheikh.
NIA officials who questioned key accused Shamshul Hoda in Nepal learnt that he had been tasked by Sheikh to carry out train derailments in India. While Hoda expressed ignorance over the Kanpur incident, he said that the plot to plant explosives on the railway track at Ghorasahan and Nakardehi in Bihar were hatched by him at the best of his Pakistan contact.

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A two member team of the NIA which visited Nepal on Friday to question Hoda said that the key accused had denied any links with both the Kanpur and Kuneru incidents. The Kuneru train accident is suspected to the handiwork of the naxalites, NIA officials say.
Hoda went on to tell the NIA that he had met with Sheikh at Dubai. During the meeting the two discussed the plot to cause a train derailment. Give me something spectacular, Sheikh told Hoda. Sheikh according to NIA officials is an agent of the ISI. At the meeting, Sheikh told Hoda that there needed to be a spectacular attack in India. Go carry out a big attack and then send me the newspaper clipping, he told Hoda.

The Nepal police during its probe learnt that Hoda had met with Sheikh regularly. However the police in Nepal were unsure about India's claim about Hoda being involved in train derailments. Hoda was arrested in Nepal, but not deported to India.

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