Questions were raised over a Pakistani national who was arrested after the bombings for not carrying valid papers and was seen as suspicious by the investigators, but was discharged within 14 days according to a statement of the first investigation officer assigned to the case. Consequently, he was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States and designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council for facilitating the LeT in "the July 2006 train bombing in Mumbai, India, and the February 2007 Samjota Express bombing in Panipat, India." A United States report declared Arif Qasmani to be involved in the attack. Allegations were also concurred on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), an Islamic fundamentalist terror group in Pakistan. It has been allegedly linked to Abhinav Bharat, a Hindu fundamentalist group in India. In 2019, NIA court has acquitted all the accused. The alleged mastermind, Sunil Joshi, was killed in 2007.
While Aseemanand has been released on bail, three persons charged in the case are absconding, and three others are in prison.
India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) charged eight people in the terrorist attack, including Swami Aseemanand, a Hindu cleric formerly affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. After the bombing, eight unaffected carriages were allowed to continue onwards to Lahore with passengers.īoth the Indian and Pakistani governments condemned the attack, and officials on both sides speculated that the perpetrators intended to disrupt improving relations between the two nations, since the attack came just a day before Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri was to arrive in New Delhi to resume peace talks with Indian leaders. Inside one of the undetonated suitcases, a digital timer encased in transparent plastic was packed alongside a dozen plastic bottles containing fuel oils and chemicals. Investigators subsequently found evidence of suitcases with explosives and flammable material, including three undetonated bombs. The victims also included some Indian civilians and three railway policemen. Of the 70 fatalities, most were Pakistani civilians. 70 people were killed in the ensuing fire and dozens more were injured. Bombs were set off in two carriages, both filled with passengers, just after the train passed Diwana near the Indian city of Panipat, 80 kilometres (50 mi) north of New Delhi. The 2007 Samjhauta Express bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred around midnight on 18 February 2007 on the Samjhauta Express, a twice-weekly train service connecting Delhi, India, and Lahore, Pakistan.
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