New Delhi, September 15
Investigation into Saturday’s serial blasts picked up pace today with the Delhi Police claiming to have identified at least one suspect who had planted the lethal explosives in the Capital’s three most popular and congested markets.

The suspect was identified on the basis of the description provided by the two crucial eyewitnesses, Rahul (12), a balloon seller and Mool Chand (48), an auto driver, who claimed to have ferried the bomber to Gaffar Market in Karol Bagh.

The description was reconfirmed from inputs provided by the terrorist data base of central intelligence agencies and the Gujarat and UP police.The identity of the suspect was confirmed during the interrogation of those taken into custody from the walled city, Okhla and neighbouring Faridabad yesterday.

Delhi Police sources described the suspect as fair, in his mid-twenties, slim with a light beard.

Teams of Delhi Police officials have fanned out to several cities in UP and Gujarat in search of other suspects, including Mumbai techie Abdul Shubhan Quereshi, alias Tauqeer, the mastermind behind the blasts. A police team has also been sent to Azamgarh in UP after names of three residents - Khalid, Habib, and Shah Alam figured during investigations.

Sources said the police was zeroing in on Tauqeer. One of his close associates, Sami, a student of architecture, was picked up from Bijapur (MP), late this afternoon.

Meanwhile, the police continued its raids in the city with the main focus on hotels and guest houses.

The Delhi Police has sounded a red alert at all 62 metro stations in the Capital. It has ordered the removal of all garbage bins.

Under intense pressure to crack the case, the Delhi Police has formed 24 special teams, each under the rank of an Assitant commissioner of police (ACP). Out of these, four teams have been sent to other states and six put on the task of analysing telephone records before and after the Saturday’s blast.

A total of 11 team are on alert to

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