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Sketches of blast suspect released New Delhi, November 2 According to the police, the suspect about 5’-5” tall, thin-built and aged 21-22 with a bandage over his left forearm may have planted one of the three bombs that killed 63 persons and injured 200 others. Only nine passengers were injured as the alert driver threw out the bag abandoned by the suspect. Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh said the sketches were drawn on the basis of the description provided by the passengers and only released after they expressed satisfaction. While one picture shows a clean-shaven man, the other two sketches, prepared by the National Crime Records Bureau, shows the man with a moustache and a beard. The sketches are 80 per cent accurate. About the progress in the investigations, Mr Karnal Singh said the police was looking into all possible angles and had yet to come to a conclusion about which terrorist outfit was involved in the blasts. Delhi Police Commissioner K.K. Paul also convened a meeting of the district DCPs this morning and asked them to strengthen the security in their districts till ID. Additional security forces had also been called in to support the Delhi Police. Meanwhile, with the death of an eight-month-old girl at Safdarjang Hospital, the toll rose to 63. Five badly charred bodies are still lying in the hospital mortuary.  |
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Punjab ultras under scanner in Delhi blasts Chandigarh, November 2 Even though no direct link has been found between the blasts and militant organisations in Punjab, the Punjab police today held a high-level review meeting to collate the inputs gathered by the intelligence agencies. The idea is to see if any of the militant groups based in Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, which are suspected to be behind the Delhi blasts, had a Punjab connection. Under the scanner are former Punjab militants who, in the past, had carried out similar blasts in public places to create panic. For a long time the security agencies have known that Punjab militants had coordinated with Jammu and Kashmir-based militant activities. The Punjab police has been asked by the Delhi police to explore the angle of the Babbar Khalsa International’s involvement in the recent blasts. The chief of the BKI, Jagtar Singh Hawara, was arrested by the Delhi police in June after his group engineered two blasts in a cinema house in Delhi. Sources in the Punjab police said it would be difficult to link the blasts to one particular group as militants were now changing strategies. The BKI had changed its strategy and was now reportedly recruiting young boys who had nothing to do with the ideology of "Khalistan". Senior police officers were silent over the developments but confirmed that they were coordinating with the Delhi police. Whenever there is a blast in the neighbouring states, the Punjab police is called in as a matter a routine for coordination. |
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