NEW DELHI: Two persons were picked up in Indore for questioning in connection with last month's firebombing of the Samjhauta Express near Panipat in Haryana. On the basis of inputs that the suitcases used to plant the improvised explosive devices in the train could have been bought from Indore, a Haryana police team went there and zeroed in on a shop at Kothari Market, which sold suitcases of the same make. The shop is run by Jainuddin.

The police showed the employees photographs of the suitcases recovered from the Samjhauta Express and the rail track on February 18 and asked them whether they sold them to any suspicious looking person. Though senior police officers remained tight-lipped on the investigations, it is learnt that they found that two employees — Huzefa and Pooran Thakur — had valuable information.

Huzefa and Pooran were taken to Panipat on Tuesday. It is not yet clear whether the police are investigating their involvement in the blasts. A senior police officer said some more persons might be picked up for questioning. In another development, Mohammed Zakir from Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, who was injured in the blasts and was recuperating in the Safdarjung Hospital here, will be taken to Panipat by the Haryana police on Wednesday to join the investigations. He would be taken to the site of the incident.

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