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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