2 convicted in 2005 Shramjeevi Express blast case

Jaunpur: A local tribunal has declared two people guilty in the 2005 Shramjeevi Express blast case in which 14 people died. District government advocate Virendra Maurya said that on Friday, District and Sessions Additional Judge Rajesh Kumar Rai declared Nafikul Biswas and Hilal guilty in the case. The amount of the fine will be announced on January 2. Young hero killed in improvised explosive artifact blast amid encounter with Naxalites in Chhattisgarh On 28 July 2005, at around 5:00 pm, a wagon of the Patna–New Delhi train was destroyed in an explosion near Jaunpur station in Uttar Pradesh. As soon as the train crossed Harpalganj railway station and reached Hariharpur railway crossing, there was a massive explosion. RDX was kept in the bathroom. RDX has been used in various terrorist attacks against Indian targets, including a bomb attack on a train in Ayodhya in June 2000. Eyewitnesses said that two youths had boarded the train in Jaunpur carrying a white hammer. After some time, both of them jumped off the train without their luggage and went away. A few minutes later, an explosion rocked the vehicle.