NIA Court sentences 6 to imprisonment in 2016 Bihar railway track IED case

Patna (Bihar) [India], October 5 : A National Investigation Agency (NIA) Special Court here on Saturday sentenced six accused to 5 to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment under various penal sections in a 2016 case relating to planting of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) on a railway track near Ghorasahan railway station in Bihar.
According to the NIA press release, the accused were involved in planting a pressure cooker IED on the railway track on the night of September 30, 2016 in a bid to blast a passenger train coming from Narkatiaganj, but the IED was spotted by local people and successfully defused before it could explode.
During the investigation, the local police established the involvement of accused Umashankar Raut, Gajendra Sharma, Rakesh Kumar Yadav, Mukesh Kumar Yadav, Motilal Paswan, and Ranjay Kumar Sah.
As per the press release, three of the accused were arrested initially by the local police, two accused were nabbed later by NIA on different occasions, which took over the probe in January 2017. The sixth accused had surrendered in February 2017. The chargesheet against all accused was filed by the NIA in July 2017.
On September 24, the NIA Court had held the accused guilty. Today the court announced the quantum of the sentences against them under relevant sections of IPC, UA(P) Act, Explosive Substances Act and Railway Act.
The sentences pronounced by the court range from 5 to 12 years of rigorous imprisonment along with fine, and will run concurrently, with the extension of 3 months imprisonment in case of nonpayment of fine, the NIA said.