Pendekal(Kurnool) Dec 22. All evidence is pointing to the sabotage theory in the accident involving the Kacheguda-Bangalore Express here today, which claimed 20 lives.
The Railway Board Chairman, I.I.M.S. Rana, had a detailed telephonic talk with the Union Railway Minister, Nitish Kumar, from the accident spot in which he not only confirmed the "sabotage" theory but also described how it was carried out. There were several pieces of `tell-tale' evidence to the tampering of the track by anti-social elements, he said. "An inclined cut in the rail apparently by a hacksaw blade did all the damage."