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Jaipur blasts probe crawls | Faces of tragedy
Published on Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:44, Updated at Fri, Jun 13, 2008 in Nation section
Tags: Jaipur Blasts, Police , New Delhi
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New Delhi: Jaipur was rocked by a series of blasts on this day last month, but a convincing arrest is still awaited and the state police's investigation has reached a dead end.
In Jaipur alone nearly 500 Muslims have been interrogated by special police teams.
Police detained a cleric from Bharatpur on May 15 as the first suspect. Police say the suspect received funds for terror activities through several bank accounts in the country. They also claim he visited Dubai, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia frequently. However, the police is unclear about the role of a specific terror group behind the blasts.
Police has also retracted its earlier theory that RDX was used to trigger the blasts.
Meanwhile, the sketches of seven suspects released by the police have been withdrawn.
The police has also made no comment on the six cigarette packets of Bangladeshi origin that were found at the blast site, which suggested Bangladeshi involvement.
The HuJI connection
The Special Cell of the Delhi Police had arrested a Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami (HUJI) terrorist Abdul Rehman alias Iqbal from the Capital on May 21.
The police had said that Rehman could provide some vital leads into the Jaipur serial bomb blasts, however his role has still not been confirmed in the blasts.
Joint Commissioner of Police, Special Cell, Karnail Singh had then said, “We are not certain about who is behind the Jaipur bomb blasts but HuJI is the prime suspect. He's an important HuJI man and you never know. He could very well have some links and we are interrogating him further.”
Initial investigations into the Jaipur serial blasts pointed towards the involvement of Bangladesh-based HuJI.
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 with 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.
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The govt. of india spends 350 crores on the muslims to subsidise the Haj travellers and this is how they
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i think its time that instead of blaming terrorists on these attacks, we blame the sloppy police that we seem
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