HC closes PIL seeking NIA probe into Chennai train blast case

The Madras High Court today closed a PIL seeking an NIA probe into the twin blasts on a train at the Central Railway Station here on May 1, 2014, which killed a woman passenger, after the CB-CID police said that it was the handiwork of SIMI activists and the culprits had been identified.
The first bench, comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice R Mahadevan, observed in their order that the PIL was solely based on newspaper reports about the blast that had occurred on the Bangalore-Guwahati Express train.
It had been stated that there were three accused and they were SIMI activists, two of them are apprehended, while one of them died in an encounter, the bench said closing the PIL by one M Durai Selvan seeking transfer of the probe in the case to National Investigation Agency (NIA).

Earlier, in an additional affidavit, Superintendent of Police, Special Investigation Division, CB-CID, B Vijayakumari stated that the twin blasts was the handiwork of SIMI activists and three persons had been identified in connection with the crime.
One of the accused Aijajudeen was killed in an 'encounter' with police on April 04, 2015 in Andhra Pradesh, two others identified as Zakir Hussain and Mehaboob are in the custody of Madhya Pradesh police in connection with a murder case following their arrest in Odissa on February 17 last.
Prisoner transit warrant had been obtained from a city court for bringing them here.

Referring to the plea of the petitioner for compensation to the family of the victim, a woman software engineer from Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, the bench recorded the police submission that Rs 1 lakh had already been paid.
Swathi Parachuri, a TCS employee, died in the blasts which had occurred when the train in which she travelled arrived at the Central Railway station, two hours behind schedule.