09-12-2006, 09:11 AM
<b>Police see Lashkar footprints in textile town</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->A cocktail of RDX, ammonium nitrate and petroleum hydro-carbon oil was used in Fridayâs serial explosions in Malegaon, Nashik police said on Monday â the combination was also used in the attacks on Mumbaiâs commuter trains on July 11.
The report from the Nashik police's forensic laboratory, however, needs to be confirmed, said superintendent of police Rajvardhan. âThe findings will be confirmed only when we get reports from two other forensic laboratories, including the NSG's facility,â he said.
<b>Investigations have thrown up another link between the two terror strikes. Nashik and Mumbai police suspect Lashkar-e-Tayyeba's top commander Abdul Raheel Sheikh to have masterminded the terror plot in the textile town. Raheel is the âprime suspectâ in the 11/7 attacks.</b>
He had stayed in Malegaon for a few weeks before finally escaping to Bangladesh in the second week of May this year, sources said.
<b>Police believe Raheel could have visited Malegaon to âissue instructionsâ to a large number of âactiveâ members of the banned Studentsâ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), present in Malegaon and the adjoining Jalgaon and Aurangabad districts. âThe needle of suspicion is increasingly pointing towards the SIMI and the Lashkar,â</b> said a senior officer.
Police also released a sketch of the third Malegaon blast suspect. There is a possibility, said sources, that the man bought a cycle from a local shop
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The report from the Nashik police's forensic laboratory, however, needs to be confirmed, said superintendent of police Rajvardhan. âThe findings will be confirmed only when we get reports from two other forensic laboratories, including the NSG's facility,â he said.
<b>Investigations have thrown up another link between the two terror strikes. Nashik and Mumbai police suspect Lashkar-e-Tayyeba's top commander Abdul Raheel Sheikh to have masterminded the terror plot in the textile town. Raheel is the âprime suspectâ in the 11/7 attacks.</b>
He had stayed in Malegaon for a few weeks before finally escaping to Bangladesh in the second week of May this year, sources said.
<b>Police believe Raheel could have visited Malegaon to âissue instructionsâ to a large number of âactiveâ members of the banned Studentsâ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), present in Malegaon and the adjoining Jalgaon and Aurangabad districts. âThe needle of suspicion is increasingly pointing towards the SIMI and the Lashkar,â</b> said a senior officer.
Police also released a sketch of the third Malegaon blast suspect. There is a possibility, said sources, that the man bought a cycle from a local shop
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