Hirakhand mishap: NIA to bring detained ISI agent to Delhi for quizzing today

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: To further its probe into series of train accidents across the country including the Hirakhand Express occurred last month, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is bringing ISI agent Shamsul Huda, who was detained in Nepal, to New Delhi on Wednesday.

Huda is believed to be the mastermind behind a failed attempt to detonate an improvised explosive device on the Ghorasahan track in East Champaran district of Bihar, the Indore-Patna Express train accident in Kanpur on November 20, 2016 and the derailment of Hirakhand Express in Koneru in Andhra Pradesh on January 21.

Meanwhile, the NIA has registered a case against Maoists holding them responsible for the Hirakhand Express mishap.