Train
blasts:
Police detain seven
people
Pakistani Rangers carry a coffin of a Samjhauta Express blast victim after Indian officials handed it over to Pakistani authorities at the Wagah border, early on Thursday.Panipat/Bikaner: A man hailing from Mumbai resembling the sketch of one of the two suspects in the Samjhauta Express blasts was grilled in custody on Thursday as the Rajasthan police launched a hunt for another man whose wife was
detained in Bikaner on Wednesday.
The Rajasthan and Haryana police were jointly interrogating the man from Mumbai, identified as Salman, who resembled one of the suspects who had alighted from the
Train before the blasts and were looking for the husband of Sora, who was picked up last night. In all seven people have been detained so far in police raids in Rajasthan, Haryana, UP and
Old Delhi, Haryana DGP Ranjiv Dalal said.
We are looking for Taaz Mohammed, the husband of Sora, who is absconding since last night, Superintendent of Police (Bikaner) Ashok Rathore said. He also denied reports that 12 people have been detained so far. Rajasthan Director General of Police A S Gill refused to reveal the identity of the detained man. Five persons were detained in coordinated raids last night by security forces in Kairana in Western UP, Bikaner in Rajasthan and Old Delhi in connection with the train blasts.
Rajasthan Home Minister Ghulan Chand Kataria said the police had failed to elicit any concrete clue from the two. Denying that three persons have been detained, he said they are looking for Sora's husband.
A forensic expert also suggested the possibility of involvement of five to six people in the blasts that killed 68 people in the train to Pakistan on Sunday night at Deewana near Panipat.
Director of forensic laboratory, Haryana, J S Mahanwal said the pattern of the fire in the trans-border train shows that the bombers had used more than two suitcases and raised the possibility of five to six people involved in the attack. Since the suitcases are more than four, it is very well understood that one person cannot carry more than one suitcase because it must have weighed around 20 kg with the bottles and other material in it, he said. So, at least, five to six people have been utilised to put these suitcases in the boggies, he added.
Meanwhile, police teams in UP, Delhi, Rajasthan and Haryana have questioned over 50 people as investigators said they were probing the case from all possible angles. Interrogation in the case is on the right track, Dalal told in Panipat after a meeting with the top district police officials. We have picked up a few people for questioning, Dalal said. Haryana police and central security agencies were interrogating those picked up.
A senior Haryana police official said that they were also exploring the possibility of the bombers leaving the train at Delhi itself after planting the explosive device. It is difficult for a person to alight from a fast moving train, he said, adding that the suspects may have planted the bombs at Old Delhi and left the train. Security agencies have also scanned the footage of the closed-circuit television cameras installed at Old Delhi railway station but were unable to find any relevant clues.
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