A 35-year wait for justice has ended with the arrest of the last absconding accused in the 1991 bomb blast at Jammu Railway Station in which three people died and 18 were injured.
During the initial investigation, one of the accused men, Aman Ullah Khan, was arrested. The remaining three, including Sheikh, fled and were later declared proclaimed offenders by a special court. Two years ago, the Government Railway Police started a fresh drive to locate him. After an intensive manhunt and meticulous verification of identity and residential records, investigators traced Sheikh to Bijbehara, where he had been living under an assumed name. With this arrest, the Railway Police have closed the chapter on one of the Union Territory’s oldest pending terror cases.
Arrested from Anantnag earlier this week, he was produced in court and a case under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act was filed against him.
