10-14-2007, 05:49 AM
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Pioneer News Service / Siddheshwar Shukla | Kolkata / Noida
A West Bengal and NOIDA link has emerged to not just Thursday's blast at the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah in Ajmer, but also the one at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad.
Top officials in Kolkata said on Saturday that the SIM card used in the Ajmer and Mecca Masjid blasts were bought in the fictitious name of one Babulal Yadav from Uma Telecom in Balanpur in Bengal.
<b>Terrorists had used the fictitious Yadav name but the photograph on the registration form has been traced to Taraknath, a doctor from Noida.</b>
<b>Who is Taraknath? The CBI is interrogating him though reports suggest he approached the sleuths after his photo was shown on TV and linked to the blasts. </b>He is Head of Department of Physical Education in Noida College of Physical Education.
<b>Sleuths say the terrorists had forged a driving licence with Nath's photo and subsequently used it to buy the SIM cards.</b>
<b>Taraknath joined the college in 1999 as a guest lecturer and rose to become HOD. "The CBI quizzed him on Saturday. He has been co-operating and will hopefully come clean," said SK Rajput, college chairman. </b>
Nath, however, refused to comment on the development. He is an alumnus of the Luxmi Bai National Institute of Sports, Gwalior. He has been asked not to leave NCR without permission of the investigation officer.
<b>"I have no information about today's development. But yes, we have been keeping a watch on him since he is under suspicion," said S P city Paresh Pandey.
Meanwhile, cops in Kolkata said that the terrorists bought several sim cards using the Yadav name. The sim cards for the Hyderabad blasts as well as the one in Ajmer could have been bought at the same time, </b>they said.
<b>"We are awaiting inputs from the Rajasthan Police and would look into all aspects of the blast and its Bengal or Bangladesh links," </b>an officer said.
The assembling of the bomb, which had been kept in a tin box with a packing of iron pipes to be used as splinters, was similar to that used in the Mecca Masjid blast. The explosive material TNT with a mix of RDX, had been connected to the alarm of the mobile phone.
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Pioneer News Service / Siddheshwar Shukla | Kolkata / Noida
A West Bengal and NOIDA link has emerged to not just Thursday's blast at the Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Dargah in Ajmer, but also the one at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad.
Top officials in Kolkata said on Saturday that the SIM card used in the Ajmer and Mecca Masjid blasts were bought in the fictitious name of one Babulal Yadav from Uma Telecom in Balanpur in Bengal.
<b>Terrorists had used the fictitious Yadav name but the photograph on the registration form has been traced to Taraknath, a doctor from Noida.</b>
<b>Who is Taraknath? The CBI is interrogating him though reports suggest he approached the sleuths after his photo was shown on TV and linked to the blasts. </b>He is Head of Department of Physical Education in Noida College of Physical Education.
<b>Sleuths say the terrorists had forged a driving licence with Nath's photo and subsequently used it to buy the SIM cards.</b>
<b>Taraknath joined the college in 1999 as a guest lecturer and rose to become HOD. "The CBI quizzed him on Saturday. He has been co-operating and will hopefully come clean," said SK Rajput, college chairman. </b>
Nath, however, refused to comment on the development. He is an alumnus of the Luxmi Bai National Institute of Sports, Gwalior. He has been asked not to leave NCR without permission of the investigation officer.
<b>"I have no information about today's development. But yes, we have been keeping a watch on him since he is under suspicion," said S P city Paresh Pandey.
Meanwhile, cops in Kolkata said that the terrorists bought several sim cards using the Yadav name. The sim cards for the Hyderabad blasts as well as the one in Ajmer could have been bought at the same time, </b>they said.
<b>"We are awaiting inputs from the Rajasthan Police and would look into all aspects of the blast and its Bengal or Bangladesh links," </b>an officer said.
The assembling of the bomb, which had been kept in a tin box with a packing of iron pipes to be used as splinters, was similar to that used in the Mecca Masjid blast. The explosive material TNT with a mix of RDX, had been connected to the alarm of the mobile phone.
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