New Delhi: More than three days have passed since the Delhi High Court was rocked by a deadly bomb blast but the investigators have not yet got any concrete evidence in the case. Even though several people have been detained and questioned in connection with the terror strike, there is no clear evidence about the organisation or people involved in carrying out the bombing.
Sources in Delhi Police have told CNN-IBN that the possibility of Indian Mujahideen being helped by another terror group in carrying out the blast has not been ruled out. The switch used to trigger the blast has been recovered but the timer used has not yet been recovered.
The investigators led by the 20-member Nation Investigation Agency (NIA) team has been baffled by four e-mails claiming responsibility for the High Court blast which killed 13 people and injured 91 others, many of them seriously.
All the e-mails are been looked at closely and the investigators have not
ruled out them being either merely a prank or a modus operandi used by terror groups to confuse them.
While the first e-mail was sent on the day of the blast by a college student from a cyber cafe in Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir and claimed that the blast was the handiwork of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), the second and the fourth e-mails were sent from the id [email protected] and said that Indian Mujahideen was the mastermind of the attack.
The third e-mail, written in a coded message, was received by the Delhi Police on September 9 and it warned of an attack in Gujarat's capital Ahmedabad. Gujarat, particularly Ahmedabad, was put on high alert after e-mail warning. The fourth e-mail, too, warned that Indian Mujahideen would target Ahmedabad.
Meanwhile, in Jammu and Kashmir, a college student was arrested for sending the first e-mail.
However, the parents of the student, identified as Sohaib, claimed that their son was innocent and "not involved at all" in the terror attack.
The sketches released by Delhi Police have also failed to lead to any concrete clues. All those detained on the basis of the sketches have been found to be not connected with the blast case.
Two men - Abdul Gani (45) and Miyan Ahemad (35) - hailing from a village in Anantnag in Kashmir, were detained in Rajasthan's Alwar on Friday evening after some people reported that their faces resembled the sketches of the blast suspects released by Delhi Police. But after their inetrrogation Rajasthan Police officials said that the duo was not involved in any terror activity.
Two persons were also detained in Mumbai on the basis of the sketches and questioned in connection with the High Court blast case but were later allowed to go.
Investigators are also closely scrutinising international calls made to neighbouring countries specially Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan in the last few days. They are also keeping a close tab on several suspects in Delhi and neighbouring areas.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while addressing the National Integration Council in New Delhi on Saturday said that the September 7 attack at the heart of Delhi was a stark reminder that there can be no let-up in our vigilance. He admitted that the blast happened despite improved intelligence in the last two years.
With several terror cases unsolved and the no concrete clues in the High Court blast case too, the investigators are racing against time to crack the September 7 terror strike.
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