Jaipur/Ghaziabad: Video clips of a sensational e-mail in which a little known group claimed responsibility for the Jaipur blasts is being verified amid doubts over its authenticity.
The e-mail was traced to a cyber cafe in Sahibabad in the outskirts of the Capital and its owner detained along with his employee.
Interrogation of Shyam Bir alias Madhukar Mishra revealed vital clues of the identity of those who sent the e-mail and their sketches are being prepared, police said.
With investigators groping for fresh leads, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje cast doubts about the the authenticity of the video clips showing a bicycle with an alleged bomb strapped to it and parked in a crowded market.
"Some of the footage may have been meant to mislead," Raje told reporters.
"After reviewing the details of the live bomb found after the serial blasts, it was seen the bomb bag was uniquely designed to fit two detonators and two batteries and aimed at causing maximum loss to human lives," she was quoted by news agencies as saying.
"In the e-mail footage, the bag is shown tagged on the back side of the cycle and its front is mingled. Whereas the cycle found by the police shows a reverse picture. Our special investigating team supported by NSG and IB personnel are evolving their own theory. But we are not rejecting the e-mail theory," she was further quoted as saying.
The genuineness of the short video clips was being verified by investigators, said Pankaj Singh, Jaipur's Inspector General of Police who also raised some doubts.
A group calling itself Indian Mujahideen sent video clips in an e-mail on Wednesday night to the media, claiming responsibility for the blasts which left 64 dead.
A Mumbai-based woman who reportedly accompanied the prime suspect to purchase bicycles from a shop in Jaipur is being questioned by police who have interrogated several people.
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