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Have you seen them? Cops out more sketches
Published on Fri, May 16, 2008 at 00:52, Updated at Fri, May 16, 2008 in Nation section
Tags: Jaipur Blasts, Walled City , New Delhi
THE AFTERMATH: Despite the sketches, authorities are still in the dark about who was behind the blasts.
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New Delhi: Police have released three more sketches of people who are the faces of terror behind the blasts that ripped through the busiest markets of Jaipur on Tuesday.
All three are between the ages of 18 and 25. Two of them are of average height and athletic built, while the third is tall.
A Police Spokesman told news agencies that while two youths were 5 feet to
5 feet 2 inches in height, the third one — aged between 20 to 25 years — is said to be 5 feet 10 inches tall.
All three have a wheatish complexion and all three are not residents of Rajasthan.
The state government has set up four-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the leadership of senior IPS Laxman Meena to probe the serial blasts.
Meanwhile, police have launched a search for the owner of a Gypsy — with a Delhi registration number — that has been parked outside the Government Railway Police (GRP) station for past six days. Visiting cards of a man named Afzal from Lucknow were found in the abandoned Gypsy.
Top police officers have confirmed that RDX and ammonium nitrate were used in the blasts — a deadly cocktail. Despite all the leads, authorities are still groping for an answer to the most crucial question: Who is behind the blasts?
And though police officials have refused to commit themselves to anything, Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhra Raje said on Tuesday — soon after the blasts rocked the Pink City — that an international hand was behind the blasts.
Initial investigations point towards the involvement of Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HuJI).
| HuJI BACKGROUNDER | |
 HuJI was established in 1992 and the terror outfit's activities were first noticed in June 1996 in Bangladesh. | |
| They are also reported to have links with the Al-Qaida. | |
| In India, they reportedly have links to the attack on the American Centre in Kolkata in 2002, in which five policemen were killed. | |
| HuJI has been linked to most serial blasts in the country in the past four years including the 2005 Delhi serial blasts and the attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. | |
| It's also been blamed for the Sankat Mochan Mandir attacks in Varanasi in March 2006, Mecca Masjid blasts in Hyderabad in 2007 and the serial blasts in Uttar Pradesh in November 2007. | |
| The US State Department labeled HuJI as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation on March 5, 2008. | |
| More than 60 people have been killed in eight blasts that rocked Rajasthan’s capital within a space of 12 minutes. All the blasts took place in the walled city. The bomb disposal squad also diffused three bombs. |
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My Suggession is to make a compulsary Registration in police station for every resident of India. that makes more easier
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