Srinagar: Militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen on Wednesday denied any role in the bomb blasts in Mumbai and described the attacks as "barbaric" or "outrageous".
Security officials have said Pakistan-based LeT is the prime suspect for the seven bomb blasts on Mumbai's rail network on Tuesday. But Lashkar denied any role.
"These are inhuman and barbaric acts. Islam does not permit the killing of innocent people," a man who identified himself as "doctor Ghaznavi", spokesman of the Lashkar-e-Taiba said.
"Blaming LeT for such inhuman acts is an attempt by the Indian security agencies to defame Kashmiri mujahideens (freedom fighters)," he said in telephone calls made to newspaper offices in Srinagar.
Lashkar is accused of several major attacks in recent years, including bomb blasts in New Delhi in October last year which killed more than 60 people.
Another terrorist group, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, denounced the bomb attacks as "outrageous", saying it abhorred the killing of civilians. "Attacks on civilians are not part of our manifesto. We never carried out such attacks nor will allow anyone to do so," the group's spokesman, Ehsan Elahi, said in Islamabad.
The Mumbai blasts took place hours after suspected Islamist militants killed eight people, seven of them tourists, in five grenade attacks in Srinagar.
Police in Kashmir accuse Lashkar of being behind the attacks and say they have already arrested one grenade thrower from the group.
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