By Md.Ali, TwoCircles.net,
New Delhi: In a ‘development’ regarding the “terrorist” angle of the May 25 blast outside the Delhi High Court, two people have been arrested till now by the Special Cell of Delhi Police. On May 27, Gulfam, a resident of Pilkhuwa Village from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh was arrested in a joint operation of the Special Cell of Delhi Police and Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorists Squad (ATS).
Another arrest by the Special Cell, made in connection with the HC blast was that of a cleric from Hazrat Nizamuddin, a Muslim dominant locality of Delhi on 26th of May. Although the police is questioning the cleric but till now it hasn’t yet disclosed to the media the details about his role in the blast.
A crude bomb exploded without any casualty, just outside the Delhi High Court complex around 1.15 p.m. on May 25. According to the Delhi Police Commissioner B.K. Gupta’s preliminary inquiry report to the home ministry, less than 250 grams of explosives were used in what the police regarded as a “low intensity blast.”
Police claims that Gulfam knew one terrorist who used to stay in his village. In this connection police is also in the look out for Nafees, allegedly Gulfam’s accomplice who is “absconding.” Cops suggest that either Gulfam or Nafees, both of whom stayed in the same village, must have supplied the explosives to those responsible for the blast. Besides Gulfam and the cleric, ten more people have been picked up for interrogation.
The police have maintained the involvement of sleeper cell of Indian Mujahideen (IM) in the blast. Claiming that the blast had all the trade mark of IM involvement, the Director General of police UP, Brij Lal, said, “We have evidences which suggest the involvement of Indian Mujahideen in several blasts across the country.”
“The blast outside the Delhi HC was part of the series of blast by the sleeper modules of IM,” Lal added. While talking to the media on the evening of May 27, Lal talked about “two batches of IM activists” which comprised “a team of well-trained terrorists and another of trainees.”
Lal said that just because the blast was of a low intensity, one can’t ignore the “involvement of IM members.” He explained that there was not much damage because probably the “job was entrusted to novices who could not carry it out properly, thereby averting a major tragedy.”
In another important development, the electronic timer device couldn’t be found from the site of the blast. According to the team of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) which visited the site twice, it might have been lost.
Meanwhile, the Indian intelligence establishment has sent an alert notice to all the states listing all the materials allegedly used in the Delhi HC blast- brass pieces, gelatin sticks, wires attached to an electronic timer, battery, nails and nitrate-based explosive. The states have been asked to immediately inform the central establishment in case any of the above is found being sold any where in the country.
As a part on the ongoing investigation cops have questioned more than sixty people in Sadar Bazar, Sarojini Nagar, Nizamuddin and other areas to ascertain the exact location from where the bag and the raw material were bought.