Kozhikode train fire incident accused Shahrukh Saifi nabbed from Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri

Ratnagiri , April 05: In a major development, Maharashtra Police and central intelligence apprehended the prime asconding accused, Sharukh Saifi, in the Kerala train fire incident, in which three people died and nine others were injured. He was arrested from Ratnagiri Railway Station of Maharashtra on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday.

 

 

 

Saifi is accused of setting on fire a co-passenger on Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express by pouring an inflammable liquid at around 9:45 pm on Sunday, April 2, when the train reached the Korapuzha railway bridge after crossing Kozhikode city.

 

 

 

While eight other passengers were injured in the process, three persons, including a one-year-old child and a woman, were found dead on the tracks hours later near the Elathur railway station in Kozhikode. Saifi’s location was traced to Ratnagiri on Tuesday. Sharukh Saifi was at Ratnagiri civil hospital for treatment of head injuries that he received after falling off the train he had targeted in Kerala.

 

The accused, however, fled from the hospital without completing the treatment. Subsequently, extensive searches were conducted in Ratnagiri area and Sharukh Saifi was traced and detained. He is currently under the custody of Railway Protection Force (RPF), Ratnagiri and his interrogation is yet to start. Kerala Police has also reached Ratnagiri.

 

A team of Kerala police also arrived in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh to conduct searches as sources said that “one of the addresses traced to Saifi is of the area in the national capital. “But there’s no clarity yet if he is the same Sharukh," sources added.

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