Jaipur/Jaisalmer: A 21-year-old woman from Punjab’s Gurdaspur district was among two alleged conspirators arrested Saturday for the Nov 3 explosion that damaged a railway track in Rajasthan’s Sriganganagar district. Police claimed to have recovered two weapons, 46 cartridges and Rs 30,000 from the woman, who investigators said received money for carrying out the blast.A joint team of Rajasthan Police’s Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) and Sriganganagar district police arrested Mahakdeep Kaur (21) and Davinder Singh (22), both residents of Gurdaspur. ADG (ATS) Dinesh MN said the two were involved in the railway track blast. A team has been sent to Punjab as part of the investigation.Police have also detained three other people suspected of helping the accused. IG (Bikaner Range) Om Prakash told TOI that one allegedly provided the duo with shelter, another arranged a motorcycle and the third took them to the spot to show them the railway track. The two arrested suspects are being interrogated by Sriganganagar police, while investigators are looking for others who may have been involved.The explosion occurred around 9.45 pm on Nov 3 near Ramsinghpur. It shattered two concrete-and-steel sleepers, damaged the rails and left a crater about 2.5 feet deep. The Anupgarh-Suratgarh passenger train had passed through the stretch barely 75 minutes earlier, raising fears that a moving train could have been targeted.Police are yet to establish the motive behind the blast. An officer said investigators suspected that the two acted at someone else’s behest and were probing the possibility of a larger conspiracy. Police have not ruled out sabotage or any other angle. “We are speaking to Punjab police to find out the two accused’s previous records, also to check if they were affiliated with some outfit or not,” an official said.
