The Hardoi irrigation department officials averted a catastrophic flood-like situation on Friday by nabbing six miscreants trying to break the Sharda Canal embankment in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh.

According to Akhilesh Gautam, the Executive Engineer of the Irrigation Department, Sub Engineer Satyendra Verma was on night patrol with his team when he saw the accused identified as Riksan Shah, Sikandar Shah, Wasim Khan, Sardar Ali, Zeeshan Ali and Muddrik Ali, trying to break the embankment. They were arrested and an FIR was filed against them at the Pasgawan police station.

According to reports, the six accused were breaking through the embankment between the Banikagaon village in Pasgawan block and the Hardoi water branch approximately 97 kilometers away from the Ucholia village in Lakhimpur Kheri.

The authorities said that the Hardoi water branch and Kheri water branch of the Sharda canal are running at full capacity right now. The canal had a discharge capacity of 2946 cusecs of water at the time of the incident. Hundreds of hectares of land in the densely populated villages of Ucholia, Bankagaon, Shivpuri, the Sitapur road, and railway line would have been completely submerged if the miscreants had been successful in damaging the embankment. This would have led to a disastrous flood-like situation, said the officials.

Silchar flooding biggest terror attack since 26/11

Islamists are employing newer methods to unleash terror in Bharat. It has now come to light that the Silchar flooding was a man-made disaster and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sharma has promised to take strict action against the perpetrators.

It may be recalled that in July, the Assam police arrested two miscreants Mithu Hussain Laskar and Kabul Khan in the state’s Cachar district in connection with the breaking of the Barak river embankment, which resulted in a catastrophic flood in Silchar. 

On May 24, the Water Resources Department filed a police complaint against unknown miscreants for breaking through the embankment at Bethukandi, some 3 kilometers from the town center, to allow rainwater from a marsh to pour into the Barak river.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma had in June stated that the flood was a man-made calamity and that those responsible will face harsh punishment. Sarma had then informed that six persons had been identified as the perpetrators of the embankment collapse that caused a deadly flood in Silchar town.

The Assam floods have already claimed 173 lives and affected 29.70 lakh people across 30 districts. To give a fair idea about the terrorist act, 175 lives were lost and more than 300 injured in the 26/11 terror attacks. These deliberate acts are aimed at derailing the administration and amount to sabotage. Similarly, train sabotage had been reported earlier.

Two instances of railway track sabotage were reported in January 2017. One sabotage attempt occurred near Diva station, Mumbai when a 15 feet long rail piece was put on the track. Drivers of the 12052 Janshatabdi Express stopped the train in time.

The other disaster was averted near Samastipur in Bihar when two railway patrolmen found two stone slabs, each around one meter long, kept on the UP Line track on the minor bridge no. 20. When the patrolmen tried to remove the slabs, 3-4 persons who were hiding came out and started abusing them. The patrolmen then rushed to inform the Dalsinghsarai RPF post, GRP, and local police.

Terror outfits have been employing different methods to derail Bharat’s development. The hand of Pakistan’s ISI has been evident in the railway track sabotage act. HinduPost had pointed out earlier “Seeing the spate of ISI and ISIS modules that security agencies have busted since the Modi Government came to power, it is likely that ISI and their supporters within Bharat have realized that it is too risky to build organized terror modules and then arm them with sophisticated weapons. Rather, they have decided to opt for simple, low-risk terror tactics like sabotaging rail lines. Even in Europe, we have seen how terror groups have opted to strike using lone wolves who crash buses into innocent civilians or attack with knives, etc”.

The recent flooding also appears to be a similar low-risk terror tactic. A thorough investigation needs to be undertaken into the matter.

References:

opindia.com
hindpost.in