By Md. Ali, TwoCircles.net,
In a revealing statement, the Union Home Minister of state Prakash Jaisawal admitted to media that there has not been any progress in the investigation of terror blasts in the country including that of the recent Jaipur bombings.
This acceptance by the representative of the central government is key to any understanding of the way government approaches the investigation of the cases of terrorism in India. The frank confession by the union minister is an indirect acknowledgement of the utter incompetence of the Indian investigative agencies.
One month after the powerful serial blasts ripped through prime locations in the walled city of Jaipur, the investigative agencies are still groping in the dark to nail the terrorists responsible for the killing of 67 persons on 13th May.
Despite working on several leads the agencies have not reached anywhere near the architects of the bloody crime.
The Special Investigative Team (SIT) has not only completely failed to find any evidence to support its initial claim of Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami (HuJi) of Bangladesh being involved in the blasts, but also retracted its earlier theory that RDX was used to trigger the explosion.
The claim made by a hitherto unknown outfit, Indian Mujahidin, taking responsibility for the blasts through an e-mail sent to media organization remains unverified.
The SIT is still not in a position to confirm or deny the existence of this group, raising the suspicion that the e-mail could have been a ploy to mislead the investigators.
The sketches of the seven suspects released by the police have not elicited any useful information from the public.
After harassing dozens of Bengali speaking Muslims and questioning or detaining about 500 people across the state the police have only arrested a cleric, from Bharatpur, Md. Illyas, on the charges of possessing fake passport and having disproportionate assets. However the SIT could not establish his involvement in the blasts.
In the background of these failures, what is very much baffling is that SIT’s attempts to gather evidence is aimed solely at pinpointing the blame on “Islamist” outfits, instead of looking into a host of other possibilities.
There are strong possibilities and reasons as many civil right groups argue that the hindutva organizations are behind this blast and many other terror blasts in India, as per the recent arrest of five activists of the Hindu Jan Jagriti Samiti is anything to go by. They were arrested in connection of Thane theater blast case.
This frank acceptance by the Union Minister, admits the loopholes in the present approaches adopted by the investigative agencies toward the cases of terror blasts, and indirectly admits the need for them to look into other more probable and likely possibilities.
One only hopes that the investigative agencies will read the covert message of the minister about their performance.