Friday, May 2, 2014

Train Blast Shatter Chennai Calm

In a May Day shocker (May 01, 2014), two blasts in a train as it arrived at the Chennai Central railway station claimed the life of a woman passenger and injured 14. Shortly after the Bangalore-Guwahati Express pulled into platform nine, two low-intensity bombs went off, one in the S-4 coach and the other in S-5, at 7.08 a.m. Parchuri Swathi, an information technology professional bound for Guntur, was killed on the spot.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa transferred the case to the Crime Branch CID for investigation.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa appealed to the people not to panic and remain calm in the wake of the twin blasts in the Bangalore-Guwahati Express at the Chennai Central railway station earlier in the day, even while entrusting the probe to the Crime Branch-CID of the State Police. Ms. Jayalalithaa in an official release, said she was pained at the death of one person, a woman passenger, in the blasts. Condemning the blasts, she said she had ordered the police to work in co-operation with the Railway Protection Force to nab those behind the terror plot.

The AIADMK leader, now camping in Kodanad, also announced a solatium of Rs 1 lakh to the family of (Swati) deceased, Rs. 50,000 to the grievously injured and Rs. 25,000 to the injured from the Chief Minister’s Public Relief Fund. She said, as the Police force had beefed up security and was making all-out efforts to provide safety, people need not panic.
TN Government rejects NIA probe: The Tamil Nadu government rejected the Centre’s offer to order a National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the twin blasts in the Bangalore-Guwahati Express at the Chennai Central station. Director-General of Police (in charge of Elections), Tamil Nadu, Anoop Jaiswal said there was no Centre-State confrontation on the issue, wondering how two agencies could investigate one case. The CB-CID was confident of achieving a breakthrough soon. Mr. Jaiswal said National Security Guard (NSG) experts would assist the Tamil Nadu Police.


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