Rajasthan goes after Bangladeshis, arrests 5

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New Delhi: The Rajasthan police have arrested five Bangladeshis in Jaipur after they were allegedly found without proper documents.

The five persons have been booked under the Foreigners Act and sent to judicial custody but there is no evidence yet that they are in any way connected to the serial blasts that rocked Jaipur on May 13.

Authorities suspect the serial blasts were carried out by the Harkat-ul Jehad-e-Islami (HUJI), a radical Islamic group which was formed in Bangladesh and which is believed to have supporters hiding among Bangladeshi immigrants in Indian cities.

HUJI has been blamed for the attack on the American Center in Kolkata, the 2005 Delhi serial blasts, the attack on the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, the Sankat Mochan Mandir attacks in Varanasi, Mecca Masjid blasts in Hyderabad and the serial blasts in Uttar Pradesh courts.

According to the shopkeepers who sold the cycles used in the Jaipur blasts, the buyers spoke in Bengali accents. The Rajasthan government decided to throw out all illegal Bangladeshis migrants in the state after the blasts.

District collectors and Superintendents of Police have been asked to check on Bangladeshis in their areas though legal experts are divided on whether a state government has the power to deport people.

In a related development, the Natioinal Security Guard investigating the blasts says that no RDX was used in the bombs, as was claimed by the state and Central governments.