Two accused linked to the railway track blast in Rajasthan’s Sri Ganganagar have been arrested in Punjab. They were identified as Mahakdeep Kaur, 21, and Davinder Singh, 22. The arrests were made in a joint operation by the Rajasthan Anti-Terror Squad (ATS), Sri Ganganagar Police and Punjab Police.
Police said Mahakdeep Kaur was in touch with two Pakistan-based handlers, known as “Chacha” and “Shah”. The handlers reportedly befriended her through romantic chats and offered her large sums of money to carry out the act. Police said Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, has recently been using a similar honey-trap strategy against young women, and recalled that a Ganganagar woman identified as Babita was earlier trapped in the same way.
The explosion took place around 9:45 pm on November 3 on the railway track near Ramsinghpur. The blast destroyed two railway sleepers, damaged the track and left a pit about 2.5 feet deep.
The Anupgarh-Suratgarh passenger train had passed over the same stretch just 75 minutes before the blast, narrowly averting a major tragedy. The accused are being interrogated in detail.