New Delhi, Sept. 24: The Union home minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, on Friday said that the email that came a few hours after the firing at Jama Masjid last Sunday has been traced to a server in Norway.
The email, purportedly sent by the terror outfit Indian Mujahideen (IM), carried a threat by the outfit of unleashing violence during the Commonwealth Games.
Stating that a terror link has so far not emerged in the incident in which two Taiwanese national were injured, Mr Chidambaram said the email seems to have been prepared many days in advance and it makes no direct mention of the shooting.
“The e-mail that came a few hours after the firing has been traced to a server in a foreign country — Norway,” Mr Chidambaram said in an interview to a television channel.
He said the investigators have found that it was a SIM card purchased and put in a GPS activated mobile phone from which the email, owing affiliation to IM, was sent.
“So we have leads but we have to zero on the particular person who sent it. (There is) nothing in the email itself which directly links it the shooting,” he said. “We are not certain that the persons involved in the shooting are directly connected with the email.”
He said the investigators suspect the Jama Masjid firing to be a handiwork of a local gang and that he was not “yet prepared to call it a terror attack”.
“Firing was of course a warning incident. Two people on a motorbike fired on a group of tourists. We think that it was a local gang. I am not yet prepared to call it as a terror attack but certainly we take it seriously. “A number of people are being questioned but no formal arrests have been made so far. We are working on the leads,” he said.
Referring to the fire in the car minutes after the firing incident, the home minister said there was no bombing in the vehicle.