Chennai: Sleuths of the Tamil Nadu CB-CID are now trying hard to break the jinx that train-related probe is not their cup of tea as they struggle for clues even after two weeks of probe into the Chennai Central twin blasts in which a software professional was killed.
The previous train-related case, where an unidentified man hijacked an EMU from Moore Market complex and rammed against another train in Vysarpadi Jeeva station in 2009, probed by CB-CID, remains still unsolved.
The unidentified man had started the EMU at 4.55 am on April 29, 2009 drove for more than 3.5 km before crashing it into a goods train, killing four persons. Though the case was immediately handed over to the CB-CID for a detailed probe, for the last five years, the identity of the hijacker remains a mystery. “We tried our best. But we failed to take the case to a logical end,” confessed a police officer who was once part of the CB-CID team.
Senior CB-CID officials maintained that they are positive about cracking the twin blast case soon and promised to make sure that the probe will not end like the hijack investigation.
Not that CB-CID has been coming out with flying colours with all the cases they had probed in the past.
The probe into the Gold Quest (MLM) case was marred by allegations that the investigators had received money from the suspects. Last year’s probe by the agency into the IPL scam also attracted controversy after the CB-CID allegedly failed to follow certain leads about betting and fixing.
Of course, the sleuths had their time of glory when they probed the Dilshan shooting case where a retired army officer shot a young boy to death in the defence residential quarters. Recently, CB-CID was in the limelight when the sleuths arrested three migrant workers for allegedly raping, robbing and murdering a woman software professional.
