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Fourth blast in Rajasthan in decade

Inside Pink City: This here is the scene outside a temple in Jaipur on Wednesday, a day after the Pink City witnessed serial blasts.

JAIPUR: The serial blasts in Jaipur on Tuesday was the fourth terror attack in Rajasthan during the past decade.

The blast at the historic dargah of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer on October 11 last, which claimed three lives, was the last terrorist strike witnessed.

Initial investigations into the Ajmer blast indicated its similarities with the Makkah Masjid blasts in Hyderabad, but no significant headway was made. The Special Investigation Team of the State police is yet to nail the perpetrators of the crime. Initial arrests of ‘madrassa’ teachers and Imams of mosques were met with stiff resistance. The SIT is yet to produce any clinching evidence of the involvement of any terrorist outfit.

A powerful bomb explosion in a State Roadways bus plying between Agra and Jaipur at Samleti village, 8 km from Mahuwa in Dausa district, in 1999 killed 22 persons. Police claimed that some suspected Kashmiri militants had placed the bomb under a seat and disembarked. Even though the sketches of the suspects were released on the basis of descriptions given by passengers, no one could be arrested. Prior to that, a low intensity bomb blast took place at Sawai Man Singh Stadium here in 1997 just an hour before the Republic Day function was to start. The function was delayed by an hour. No one was killed.

On September 30, 1993, police aborted a chain of blasts when it recovered tiffin bombs from three locations here after a similar bomb detonated at Chandpole. Four persons, including Jalees Ansari, an accused in the Mumbai blasts as well, were arrested and are presently under trial.

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