Bomb Blasts In India - 2

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An outstanding account of Gujarat police's perseverance on Rediff
here, here, here and Hindu here

some relevant snippets:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In just 22 days his police claims to have solved the conspiracy behind the serial bomb blasts in Ahmedabad of July 26 and the mystery behind the bombs that were planted all over Surat but did not explode. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->When the investigations started, the first thing all the IPS officers did was to read Students Islamic Movement of India chief Safdar Nagori's statement given to the Madhya pradesh police when he was arrested in March, and that of his associate Ameel Pervez. Pervez had attended an arms training camp in Gujarat and he also gave the names of SIMI members like Sajid Mansuri, Yunus Mansuri, Zahid Sheikh, Imran Sheikh and Usman Agarbattiwala who had attended it. <b>Neither the concerned states nor the IB had acted on it and taken preventive measures.</b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"<b>From July 26 to August 16 (when the breakthrough was announced) none of us went home to sleep. Every morning at 7 we would all go home and return after a shower and in fresh clothes. We would sleep on our chairs in the daytime. We haven't hit the bed yet</b>," said Deputy Commissioner of Police Abhay Chudasama, who along with his boss Joint Commissioner of Police Ashish Bhatia and Rakesh Asthana, police commissioner of Baroda, played an important role in detecting the conspiracy behind the bomb blasts.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In Baroda, under the supervision of Police Commissioner Rakesh Asthana, independent investigations were going on. Asthana is a level-headed officer with 10 years of experience in the Central Bureau of Investigation. <b>He shares the credit for investigating the fodder scam which tainted Lalu Prasad Yadav. </b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Once the role of SIMI emerged, <b>Asthana specially asked his department to get on board two Muslim police officers. </b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->On the basis of the early lead provided by the interrogations in Baroda and Ahmedabad, teams of Gujarat police travelled to Kerala, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka to collect a variety of documentary evidence.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Also, if one believes the claims of the Gujarat police, the Students Islamic Movement of India has only become more powerful after its ban in 2001. <b>That also means the Intelligence Bureau and state governments since the last three years have completely failed to know, assess and analyse the internal changes in a banned SIMI while innocent people were being killed mercilessly in bomb blasts.</b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The SIMI leadership wants its cadres to penetrate the legal field, media and human rights outfits all over India.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->the Gujarat police says, "None of them thought the police will ever catch them. Even if they are caught they thought it will be for political reasons. Blasts after blasts took place in India and nobody was arrested, so they became brazen."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->