2005 Train blast case: Two ‘HuJI men’ to arrive in Jaunpur for trial

Jaunpur district jail superintendent, Shailendra Kumar Maitreya said, “So far, we have not recieved any communication from Hyderabad jail officials regarding Hilal and Nafikul being sent to Jaunpur.”

The police had filed a chargesheet in the Uttar Pradesh train blast case against four accused including Hilal, Nafikul, Obedur Rehman alias Babu Bhai and Mohammad Alam Giri Hussain alias Ronny. A local Jaunpur court had awarded death sentence to Rehman and Ronny in August, 2016. Rehman is lodged at Jaunpur jail while Ronny is at Naini Jail in Allahabad. Both have filed appeal against the judgment in Allahabad High Court, confirmed the superintendent. The explosion in a compartment of Shramjeevi Express had occurred near Harpalganj railway station in Jaunpur and RDX was found to be triggering the blast.

The first breakthrough in the case was made after Delhi Police arrested alleged HuJI operatives Amisul and Mahibul, who revealed names of Rehman, Hilal, Nafikul and Ronny for planting the bomb in the train. According to police, Rehman and one Yahiya Khan, who died in a police encounter, had assembled the bomb in a house in Khusrupur in Bihar and later handed it over to Ronny and Hilal, who planted it in the train. Hilal, a native of Bangladesh, and Nafikul of West Bengal.