Three days after the highintensity bomb explosion outside the Delhi high court, the investigating agencies are still groping in the dark. While the agencies claim to have ‘positive leads but no breakthrough’, the National Investigation Agency top brass and the Delhi police on Saturday held a detailed review meeting of the investigation so far.
Sources said the view at the meeting was that the Indian Mujahideen is likely to have been assisted by a terror outfit operating out of the Kashmir Valley in the execution of not only Wednesday’s bombing at the Delhi high court but also of the July serial bombings in Mumbai.
Sources said all aspects related to the Delhi and Mumbai explosions were discussed at length during the meeting. “All issues, including similarities and dissimilarities between the Delhi and Mumbai blasts, were discussed. And some very interesting facts cropped up,” a senior investigating official said.
In the Mumbai serial bombings ammonium nitrate with traces of PETN mixed with fuel oil and a detonator were used in the three blasts, which, sources said, was a “trademark” IM explosive.
However, in the Delhi blast the bomb was made up primarily of PETN with traces of ammonium nitrate. Interestingly, PETN is used heavily by militant outfits operating in the Kashmir Valley.
“This clearly proves that IM is not alone in these operations. They are being assisted and backed by a Kashmir terror outfit, which, in all probability, could be the Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, though HuJI is also under the scanner,” a source said. Sources confirmed that a switch had been found at the blast site.