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Bhubaneswar: Government Railway Police (GRP) officers and National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials Monday conducted a polygraph test on Ramachandran Subhash of Tamil Nadu, the prime accused in the Puri train fire case.
Subhash was brought to the State Forensic Science Laboratory (SFSL) in Rasulgarh December 7 morning and the polygraph test was conducted at 11.30 am, sources said.
Sources in the Special Investigation Wing (SIW) of Orissa Police, which is assisting the GRP and NIA in investigating the ‘sensitive’ case, said a polygraph test was conducted on Subhash after he reportedly kept changing statement.
The prime accused, who reportedly has a tea stall in Tamil Nadu, suddenly received a large sum of money from a person based in Jammu & Kashmir. The investigators have found a lot of such evidence, the sources added.
Subhash, who had earlier told the media that a few terrorists had directed him to torch some empty train coaches in Puri November 12, reportedly told police personnel that he planted two bombs in each of the four trains in Puri and burnt another coach using a different tactic.
The accused was guided by five people of the gang who were also present at Puri when he set the coaches on fire, according to sources. The five people, suspected to be his handlers, however, had fled. Subhash revealed the names of three persons — Uttam, Gopal and Ashraf — who had accompanied him to Puri.
Earlier, a team of CID officials from Kharagpur and GRP officers from Haridwar had questioned Subhash in connection with similar incidents in the two cities. NIA SP Prashant Kumar and other officials of the central agency had questioned him November 28 after the Union home ministry handed over the investigation of the case to it.
Subhash will be produced in a Puri court December 8 after his six-day-remand ends. The sub-divisional judicial magistrate (SDJM) court in Puri had December 2 allowed GRP to take Subhash on six-day remand for further interrogation.
The court had earlier granted permission for a polygraph test to be conducted on the accused.
