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Blood in Pink City Ghaziabad, May 15 During investigations, intelligence agencies had come to know that the E-mail which had been sent at 8.30 pm to news channels had originated from a cyber café - Navin Computers - at Sahibabad in Ghaziabad district of UP. This alerted the intelligence agencies and a team of the Rajasthan STF raided the house of the cyber café owner, Madhukar Mishra at Sahibabad and took away Madhukar Mishra and his father Syaram Mishra for questioning. Madhukar is a B.Sc student. The STF team had taken along the computer and other gadgets and appliances also. According to Madhukar’s family, cops from Delhi and Noida were also accompanying the STF team. Madhukar’s brother, Diwaker Mishra, was also being taken away but was left behind as a large crowd had gathered outside their residence. Madhukar reportedly said the terrorist who came to the cyber cafe looked like a student and he had assumed that he wanted to do some academic work. According to sources, the E-mail said since India had aligned itself with the USA and Britain, terror attacks were being directed against it. Should it not stop cooperating with these two countries, more such attacks would follow.
Video decoded Jaipur, May 15 The cyber experts de-coded the video that the Rajasthan police had procured from a TV channel and said shots of a bicycle with a blue coloured bag on it are from around the kotwali in the walled city area of Jaipur. However, the placement of the bag on the cycle in the video and placement of the bag in reality vary. The cycle had been found by the police in Jaipur hours after the blast site. A blue coloured bag with an unexploded bomb was on it. Police sources today said the links of the blast could be as wide spread from Ghaziabad, from where the e-mail of the video was sent to a TV channel, to Belgaum in Karnataka. The frame number of the cycle shown in the video matches with one of the cycles that was recovered from the blast site. Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje told reporters here this evening that the e-mailed video was being studied by various agencies. The state, on the pattern of Punjab and UP, would also set-up a special task force to deal with terrorist crime, she said and added cops who have dealt with terror first-hand, like KPS Gill, would be consulted. Raje went onto blame the central government for delaying the stricter anti-terrorist law that is still pending with them. Rajasthan had passed its law on the pattern of Maharashtra, however, it was pending clearance, Raje said. Meanwhile union home minister Shivraj Patil said security agencies had found important clues to the blasts. Late last night a little known group “Indian Mujahideen” which the intelligence agencies believe is the front organisation for the banned Students Islamic Movement of India, had claimed responsibility for the blasts. The e-mail says the blasts were carried out to ensure that the “Americans and the British do not send their tourists here”. It also talked about taking revenge for insults to Muslims. The e-mail id used was “guru_alhindi_jaipur@yahoo.Co.Uk”, the sources said, noting that the account was created yesterday itself using the UK domain of the Yahoo. Sources said during the interrogations that took place in Karnataka where seven suspected terrorists were arrested some time back that the name Indian Mujahideen figure for the first time. However, the interrogated suspects had spoken about how Goa would be attacked and there had been no mention of Jaipur. Sketches of 3 more suspects released
Jaipur limping back to normalcy Jaipur, May 15 The blast also erased the impression that Jaipur was free from terrorist activity. The laid-back city dotted with historical monuments, is waking up to international terrorists, what has long been faced by other cities in the region like Delhi, Srinagar, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Ludhiana, Ambala among others. The people here are still taking comfort in the fact that no local boy was involved. “It is the handiwork of outsiders”, said Gul Ahmed. In the walled city, curfew was imposed for the second consecutive day. The “merchants of death” who planted bombs on cycles in the heart of this commercial area, have caused some fissures in the society, said Aman Thakur, who lives in the Baadi Chapaul area of the walled-city. During the curfew in the walled-city area, young men, of course polarised on religious lines, stood around in small groups as the cops asked them to get to their homes. It seemed they were patrolling their respective localities fearing a backlash from communities. Not a woman was in sight as the Tribune team carrying a curfew pass entered the walled city. TV cameras were panning away detailing each move for million of anxious viewers across the globe. Around 2 pm the “Aazaan” (the call for prayers) from the local mosque broke the silence. At around 4 pm, when the curfew was lifted, people started moving about. It was back to business as jewellers in the famous Johri bazaar opened their shops. Though largely Hindu businessmen own the shops, the back-end craftsmenship is usually with Muslim groups. Can such business ties be over-looked? Youngsters in the new part of Jaipur, have matured more in a day than they may have in years. On their own, youth organised a blood donation camp at Vaishali. More than 200 young men and women turned up to donate blood that is needed by the injured admitted in hospitals. Another group held candles and walked in peace march. It is seems that Jaipur will win the battle against terror. People will face it bravely there is no doubt about it, says Harish Malik, a senior journalist with a leading Hindi daily, here.
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Jaipur, May 15