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Police working on three leads

AHMEDABAD: While Gujarat Minister of State for Home Amit Shah and Health Minister and Cabinet spokesman, Jaynarayan Vyas, refused to share any information with the media about the direction of the investigation into the serial blasts here, police sources indicated that they were working on three possible clues to lead to the perpetrators of the crime.

While the e-mail sent minutes before the Saturday’s blasts in the name of “Indian Mujahideen” had been traced to an address in Navi Mumbai and the Mumbai police were investigating into it, the police here were making inquiries about two phone numbers, one landline and the other mobile, from where calls were made soon after the serials blasts last night.

A resident of Amreli, Kamlesh, informed the police about having received two calls, the first from an Ahmedabad landline at 8.06 p.m. and the second from a mobile connection at 8.44 p.m. giving information about “task accomplished.” The first time the caller said, “Bhai, kam ho gaya,” (the work is done), and the second time the recipient was addressed as “Ejaj, kam ho gaya.” Both the times the lines were disconnected immediately. The police investigated the two numbers given by Kamlesh and found to be both dead now.

While the police have denied the possibility of any “human bomb” being involved in the carnage at the trauma centre in the government civil hospital, where 23 people including a doctor pair, were killed, the police have found the exploded car which was believed to had caused the blast, carried a fake number plate. The number plate recovered at the site was found to be that of a Scooty registered in Vadodara and had nothing to do with any terror activities.

The anti-terrorist squad of the State police have formed 10 teams to inquire into the local connections in the terror act, questioning the eye-witnesses to prepare sketches of the possible suspects and others. About 30 people have so far detained for questioning in different parts of the city. The bicycles used in the serial blasts had all been found to be old ones, sold four or five years back, and possibly taken from the shops giving bicycles on rental basis. Several of the shop owners running bicycle rental business were also being closely questioned in this connection. The State Cabinet, at its meeting, also adopted a condolence resolution in memory of those killed in the serial blasts and expressed the state’s resolve to go the “roots” of the terror activities and thanked the people for generous help extended to the injured to rush them to the hospitals for treatment.

Meanwhile, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and the BJP prime ministerial candidate, L. K. Advani, accompanied by the party general secretary, Arun Jaitley, visited the civil hospital and some other bast-hit areas. A Congress delegation of the AICC general secretary, B. K. Hariprasad, Union Textile Minister Shankarsinh Waghela, AICC secretary Rajiv Shukla and others also visited the affected areas.

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