Hyderabad, March 13: The National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the 2007 Samjhauta Express blast, has sent a team to Nepal to follow leads that the two most wanted men in the case are hiding there.
The NIA is looking at the contacts of an RSS leader in Nepal who could have helped Sandeep Dange and Ramji Kalsangra, wanted not just in the Samjhauta Express case but also for the explosions at Ajmer Sharif, Mecca Masjid, Malegaon and Modasa.
The NIA has questioned around a dozen people in Nepal who they suspect may have helped Dange and Kalsangra, on the run since 2008.
Kalsangra, the NIA has learnt, was present near Ranchi until May 2010 and had been working as an electrician. Sources said Kalsangra had also sought shelter in West Bengal. The NIA has learnt that he has scars from stitches between the ankle and knee on the left leg.
“Questioning of his acquaintances revealed that Kalsangra never called his family on telephone. He is good with laptops. He was always seen walking with a pen drive around his neck,” an official claimed.
Dange is said to have a relative in Nepal. Investigations have revealed that Dange met Kalsangra in Jharkhand in 2009.
They were named by Aseemanand in his statement on the Samjhauta Express blast. The case was transferred to the NIA last year. The probe gathered momentum after the CBI, probing the Mecca Masjid explosion, arrested Aseemanand in November.
–Agencies