<p>However, they identified the owner of the two-wheeler in which the explosive material was planted at Zaveri bazar. <br /><br />“The investigation is on. We have identified the scooter in which one of the bombs was planted,” Union Home Secretary R K Singh said. <br /><br />Several people were being questioned based on their “previous known linkages” as part of the investigation into the blast. With “external help” (Pakistan) ruled out, agencies are now after home-grown terror groups who may have carried out the attack with support from the underworld. <br /><br />“ Interception of telephonic conversations has indicted engagement of underworld handlers” sources told Deccan Herald, reiterating that a clear picture on the identity of the perpetrators is yet to emerge. <br /><br />No breakthrough<br /><br />“There is no breakthrough and no one has yet taken responsibility for the act,” they said. Asked whether there was any cross-border link to Wednesday’s blasts, the home secretary said: “We have an email which originated elsewhere. It is being followed up.”<br />Investigators have questioned some of the gang members of Dawood Ibrahim, the Pakistan-based mafia, to verify the information on the movement of some of the suspects linked to Indian Mujahideen. <br /><br />Dawood’s role in the 1993 blasts and that of his D-company has been part of the city’s bloody past. <br /><br />The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai police and National Investigation Agency are in constant communication with anti-terror squads and police in other metros and state capitals, including Bangalore, Lucknow and Hyderabad.<br /><br />Agencies are also following the Uttar Pradesh connections after it was revealed that ammonium nitrate, which was used in the Dashashwamedh Ghat (Varanasi) blasts and explosions in some of the UP courts, was in use in the latest attacks on the Maximum City. <br /><br />According to police sources in Lucknow, the sleuths of Mumbai ATS along with their counterparts in UP conducted raids at different places at Azamgarh, Mau, Faizabad, Moradabad, Jaunpur and Allahabad looking for suspected Indian Mujahideen militants, feared to have been behind the blasts. <br /><br />In a fresh development, the Delhi police claimed to have “intercepted post-blasts conversations between the terrorists” and intimated information to the probe teams camping in Mumbai.</p>
<p>However, they identified the owner of the two-wheeler in which the explosive material was planted at Zaveri bazar. <br /><br />“The investigation is on. We have identified the scooter in which one of the bombs was planted,” Union Home Secretary R K Singh said. <br /><br />Several people were being questioned based on their “previous known linkages” as part of the investigation into the blast. With “external help” (Pakistan) ruled out, agencies are now after home-grown terror groups who may have carried out the attack with support from the underworld. <br /><br />“ Interception of telephonic conversations has indicted engagement of underworld handlers” sources told Deccan Herald, reiterating that a clear picture on the identity of the perpetrators is yet to emerge. <br /><br />No breakthrough<br /><br />“There is no breakthrough and no one has yet taken responsibility for the act,” they said. Asked whether there was any cross-border link to Wednesday’s blasts, the home secretary said: “We have an email which originated elsewhere. It is being followed up.”<br />Investigators have questioned some of the gang members of Dawood Ibrahim, the Pakistan-based mafia, to verify the information on the movement of some of the suspects linked to Indian Mujahideen. <br /><br />Dawood’s role in the 1993 blasts and that of his D-company has been part of the city’s bloody past. <br /><br />The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai police and National Investigation Agency are in constant communication with anti-terror squads and police in other metros and state capitals, including Bangalore, Lucknow and Hyderabad.<br /><br />Agencies are also following the Uttar Pradesh connections after it was revealed that ammonium nitrate, which was used in the Dashashwamedh Ghat (Varanasi) blasts and explosions in some of the UP courts, was in use in the latest attacks on the Maximum City. <br /><br />According to police sources in Lucknow, the sleuths of Mumbai ATS along with their counterparts in UP conducted raids at different places at Azamgarh, Mau, Faizabad, Moradabad, Jaunpur and Allahabad looking for suspected Indian Mujahideen militants, feared to have been behind the blasts. <br /><br />In a fresh development, the Delhi police claimed to have “intercepted post-blasts conversations between the terrorists” and intimated information to the probe teams camping in Mumbai.</p>
