“Sharukh Saifi set the coach on fire with the intention to kill people: NIA files chargesheet in Kerala train arson case, invokes UAPA, IPC and other acts”, Opindia, September 30, 2023:
“On 29 September the National Investigation Agency (NIA) charge-sheeted the 27-year-old Sharukh Saifi who is the sole accused in the Kerala train arson instance that claimed the lives of three individuals including a man, a woman and a 2-year-old female child as well as injured nine others.
NIA released a statement which read that he has been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Act, Railways Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act. He is accused of carrying out a terrorist act on 2nd April of this year by setting fire to the D1 Coach of the Alappuzha-Kannur Executive Express.
According to the grisly details in the NIA chargesheet, he committed the crime intentionally by tossing and sprinkling petrol on the passengers and setting the coach ablaze with a lighter. It stated, “A resident of Shaheenbagh, New Delhi, Saifi had boarded the moving Alappuzha- Kannur Executive Express, committed the terror act and continued to travel in the same train till Kannur, before escaping to Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, from where he was eventually arrested…..”
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