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Haryana police question over a dozen people

Staff Reporter

Interrogation of detained person in connection with Samjhauta blasts yields no result

NEW DELHI: The Haryana police have so far not come across any evidence to link the man detained at Bikaner in Rajasthan to the Samjhauta Express blasts near Panipat a week ago. They are now questioning over a dozen people picked up on the basis of their resemblance to the sketches of the suspects.

The police have thoroughly interrogated Salman, who was picked up from the residence of a railway employee at Bikaner and brought to Panipat on Friday, but nothing has come of it yet.

Following the release of sketches of the suspects, the police have received a number of calls from the public. Acting on the tip-offs, they have picked up more than a dozen people, some of who belong to Uttar Pradesh. "They are being questioned to find out where they were on Sunday night at the time of the blasts," said a police officer.

Few fingerprints

It is learnt that a forensic team has lifted a few fingerprints from inside one of the suitcases containing the unexploded bomb, which would be matched with those being brought for questioning.

The police had earlier picked up a Pakistani, Zahid, for questioning. However, he was released on Saturday after verification of his antecedents.

Zahid told the police that he was to return to Lahore along with his mother and younger brother by the Samjhauta Express on Sunday night, but due to a quarrel with his brother at the old Delhi station, he changed his plans and returned to Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh.

Meanwhile, efforts of the Special Cell of the Delhi police to find out the place from where the suitcases, used for planting the bombs, had been purchased have not yielded any results.

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