04-16-2006, 09:32 PM
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New Delhi, Apr 16: Explosive experts are not buying the view of Delhi Police`s Special Cell, probing the blasts at Jama Masjid, that a battery could have been used to charge the chemicals to trigger an explosion at the shrine as investigations focussed on questioning of members of a gang whose chief was linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed group.
After the Friday evening, Delhi Police and officials of central security agencies had picked up all materials from the blast site which proved it was nothing but a mixture of potassium chloride, sulphuric acid and some splinters concealed in a tin, official sources said.
The Delhi Police had yesterday come out with the view that the blast could have been triggered using the battery after it produced a nine volt cell, which had not been shown to the explosive experts on Friday.
However, after analyzing all the materials, the experts were of the opinion that it was a low-intensity chemical explosion only and that the battery, if found actually from the blast site, could only have been kept to divert focus of the Delhi Police as no timer or wire had been recovered from there.
Sleuths of central agencies had begun quizzing the erstwhile gang members of Abdul Karim Tunda, a gangster from Uttar Pradesh who had links with militant outfits Harkat ul Mujahideen and JeM. He was understood to have been killed in Bangladesh a few years back.
The reason for questioning members of Tunda`s Gang is that it was this gang which had carried out such types of attacks in 1997 and 1998 using the same composition of chemicals.
Some of the members of Tunda gang, who had either been acquitted by the courts or were out on bail, were being questioned by the sleuths.
Tunda`s gang was one of the first such groups, which was instrumental in carrying out operations on behalf of Pakistan- based terrorist outfits outside Jammu and Kashmir.
The gang had first worked for Harkat-ul-Ansar and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami and later operated for Lashker-e-Taiba.
Crack teams had been sent to Uttar Pradesh to carry out investigations into some other members of the Tunda gang, the sources said.
They said the motive behind the attack could be to create a communal disharmony that could have lead to riots in the national capital.
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New Delhi, Apr 16: Explosive experts are not buying the view of Delhi Police`s Special Cell, probing the blasts at Jama Masjid, that a battery could have been used to charge the chemicals to trigger an explosion at the shrine as investigations focussed on questioning of members of a gang whose chief was linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed group.
After the Friday evening, Delhi Police and officials of central security agencies had picked up all materials from the blast site which proved it was nothing but a mixture of potassium chloride, sulphuric acid and some splinters concealed in a tin, official sources said.
The Delhi Police had yesterday come out with the view that the blast could have been triggered using the battery after it produced a nine volt cell, which had not been shown to the explosive experts on Friday.
However, after analyzing all the materials, the experts were of the opinion that it was a low-intensity chemical explosion only and that the battery, if found actually from the blast site, could only have been kept to divert focus of the Delhi Police as no timer or wire had been recovered from there.
Sleuths of central agencies had begun quizzing the erstwhile gang members of Abdul Karim Tunda, a gangster from Uttar Pradesh who had links with militant outfits Harkat ul Mujahideen and JeM. He was understood to have been killed in Bangladesh a few years back.
The reason for questioning members of Tunda`s Gang is that it was this gang which had carried out such types of attacks in 1997 and 1998 using the same composition of chemicals.
Some of the members of Tunda gang, who had either been acquitted by the courts or were out on bail, were being questioned by the sleuths.
Tunda`s gang was one of the first such groups, which was instrumental in carrying out operations on behalf of Pakistan- based terrorist outfits outside Jammu and Kashmir.
The gang had first worked for Harkat-ul-Ansar and Harkat-ul-Jehadi Islami and later operated for Lashker-e-Taiba.
Crack teams had been sent to Uttar Pradesh to carry out investigations into some other members of the Tunda gang, the sources said.
They said the motive behind the attack could be to create a communal disharmony that could have lead to riots in the national capital.
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