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Summary Kamal Chouhan has confessed in front of Indian media that he carried out Samjhota Express blast.
The 2007 Samjhauta Express blast killed 68 people, majority among them Pakistanis.The confession came only two days after he was arrested. His family, however, has alleged that Chouhan confessed under duress.Chouhan was remanded to police custody till February 23 after he was produced in court.He was arrested from Indore on Sunday by the National Investigation Agency and then brought to Delhi.Chouhan, during his interrogation, told the probe agency that he planted one of the bombs in the train to Pakistan.On February 18, 2007, twin blasts ripped through two coaches of the Samjhauta Express near Panipat, when the bi-weekly train was heading from Delhi to Lahore in Pakistan. Most of the 68 people who died were Pakistanis.The NIA has already chargesheeted six people in connection with the case including right-wing extremists Swami Aseemanand and Sadhvi Pragya Thakur. The four others have been charged for assisting Aseemanand; two of them, however, are yet to be located.
