By TCN Staff Reporter,
Mumbai: In a new development in the Varanasi blast probe, the Mumbai police yesterday detained seven people, including three security guards, for questioning from a call centre Interface Cyber Hub in Mumbai.
According to India’s big news agency UNI’s report, Indian Mujahideen had sent the email to the media houses claiming responsibility for the blast from Interface Cyber Hub, from where the 7 people were picked on December 8 for questioning. Interestingly, the UNI news report was just buried by the mainstream press. Only some Urdu dailies carried it.
Earlier, a father-son duo was picked up for interrogation from their residence at Mansarovar Builiding in sector-17 in Navi Mumbai yesterday in connection with the IM mail in which the banned terror group had claimed responsibility for the Varanasi blast. The five-page mail was sent using an unsecured WiFi of Airtel Broadband, about half an hour after the blast at Sheetla Ghat in Varanasi on Tuesday December 7, which left a baby girl dead and scores injured.
While the IM email sender remains a mystery in the last few years as blast is taking place one after another religiously followed by the peculiar email –most of the time sent from Mumbai, the Mumbai ATS has indicated that it would be almost impossible to trace the sender.
Meanwhile, the Mumbai Police has said the absconding Bhatkal brothers may be behind the Varanasi blast. The UP Police, on the other hand, has said two Azamgarh youths, accused in Delhi blast and absconding, could have masterminded the blast.
Earlier this year on September 19, two unidentified gunmen fired at a group of foreigners visiting Jama Masjid in Delhi. About one hour after the attack, an email was sent in the name of Indian Mujahideen, claiming the attack and warning more. The mail was traced to Mumbai but after initial questioning the probe into the mail went cold.